The Sources of the Nile
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The Sources of the Nile
A podcast about media, science and water diplomacy in the Nile basin. Join us in exploring the role that media and scientific communication play in shaping transboundary conflicts and cooperation. Every month we will talk to journalists and researchers from different Nile countries to discuss the me...
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11 episodi
Episode 11 - Finally at the sources: live in Jinja!
We travel to the sources of the Nile in Jinja, Uganda, to celebrate #EverydayNile photo-exhibition and the end of the project Open Water Diplomacy, re...
Episode 10 - When scientists and journalists become water diplomats
Yasir Mohamed, associate professor of hydrology and former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Sudan, and Mohamed Abdulrahman, journalist and former d...
Episode 9 - Interlude: Happy birthday to the Nile!
2019 is the year of the Nile, marking the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Nile Basin Initiative. We join the celebrations with twenty spe...
Episode 8 - Who speaks for the river?
Who speaks for the river? We ask the question to Wubalem Fekade, head of communication at ENTRO-Nile Basin Initiative and to three journalists of the...
Episode 7 - Sounds of the Nile
Songs play a key role in reproducing Nile stories. Can music promote also dialogue and shared identities along the river? With Alia Mossallam, Egyptia...
Episode 6 - A water war on the Nile?
How do international media and observers talk about the Nile? With Ana Cascao, independent researcher, and Alastair Leithead, BBC Africa correspondent...
Episode 5 - Sudan: caught in between
This episode was recorded in Khartoum, where we met, among many others, Tamer Abd Alkreem, anthropologist at the University of Khartoum, and Omnia Sha...
Episode 4 - Lights, Camera, Action... Nile Cinema!
Together with Linda Lilienfeld, director of the film festival Let's talk about water, and with Terje Tvedt, historian and filmmaker from the Universit...
Episode 3 - Nile day: what Egypt should celebrate
February 22, the day this podcast is launched, is Nile Day! We talk about media, science and Nile politics in Egypt with Rawia Tawfiq, political scien...
Episode 2 - An emotional dam?
We are joined by Iginio Gagliardone and Wondwosen Michago Seide to discuss the role that media and emotions play in framing the Grand Ethiopian Renais...
Episode 1 - The art and science of water diplomacy
In this episode with talk to Zaki Shubber about what is water diplomacy and with Yasir Mohamed about the role that science could play in Nile hydropol...