Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Jul 31, 2023 | en.qantara.de | Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

In 2011, the year of the Arab Spring, Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis decided to launch a music project. It was not inspired by the protests around Cairo's Tahrir Square but by one of the few constants in Egyptian life: the Nile. However, the Nile is not just Egyptian. Girgis quickly realised that such a project – like Africa's longest river – would have to flow across national boundaries.