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« Trees at the Dawn of the Anthropocene: Infrastructures of Empire - Amr Khairy », Égypte en Révolution(s), ID : 10.58079/13w3k
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A weeping willow. Photo: Amr Khairy If you grew up in the Nile Delta or visited relatives there until the 1990s, you would have noticed the ṣafṣāfa trees, known universally as the weeping willows, and more commonly in Egypt as Umm al-shuʿūr (the loose-haired). They were large and imposing, compared to other trees and the expansive green fields in their surroundings. Their light green branches – the loose heavy green hair locks-like limbs – extended gracefully in arches that went up a little then...
