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"The River of History", Ep.1 of "The Nile Quest". (based on my "The Nile. History's Greatest river).

Episode 1 deals with and describes how Egypt and Sudan gradually made themselves more and more dependent on the Nile River. The journey, however, starts in Rome because the Nile is not only Africa’s river; it is deeply integrated in the world’s history. The Fountain of the Four Rivers created in 1651, depicts the Nile as the river of paradise; it represents the Nile as a blindfolded demigod, because its mystical source had not yet been discovered. Today, the secrets of the Nile have been revealed, and this series describes how this happened but also how the uncertainty about the river’s future is greater than ever. We head up the river to one of the warmest and driest areas of the planet to understand the river’s importance to Egypt – from the time of the Pharaohs to the developments of today. The water that every autumn burst out of a dry desert created one of the most fertile areas in the world – and one of history’s greatest civilizations. We continue upriver through the fabled Nubia to what was the world’s largest cotton farm not far from Khartoum and look at the Nile’s importance to the British Empire. The downstream countries Egypt and Sudan gradually acquired a monopoly on the Nile water, for long arguing that they had historical rights to all the water in the river.The Nile Quest tells the fascinating story of the longest, most mythical and politically intriguing river in the world. It depicts a river of beauty journeying upstream from its mouth to its sources. The film takes the viewer on a voyage through deserts, swamps and rain forests, visiting on the way the offices of presidents and prime ministers and talking to people living on the banks of the river. In this documentary series the viewer is taken on a voyage through 5000 years of history up the river from the Mediterranean to the sources of the Nile in the heart of Africa. It unravels the dramatic quest for controlling the Nile and presents new perspectives on the Nile and its important role in current affairs. Today the Nile plays the main role in a drama that is of world historical significance. How will the waters of this famous river be controlled and shared in the years to come? The Nile has been controlled by Pharaohs, Roman emperors, Turkish sultans, Napoleon, and the British Empire – from Queen Vitoria to Winston Churchill. Now, it binds eleven countries even closer together in a common destiny they cannot escape. This series on the longest and most fabled river in the world is special in two ways. Unlike most other films on the Nile it tells both the fascinating story of the river's long past and its connections to the present; and hydropolical details about the current and most revolutionary period in the Nile’s history. At the same time it tells the story of a journey up-river, going against the stream, in order to be able to explain confluences and interplay between history, politics and an extremely varied and at times very beautiful geography. Produced by Panopticon in cooperation with Norwegian Broadcasting Cooperation. See also my book on the Nile on which the TV-series is based: "The Nile. History's Greatest River", for more information, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nile-97.... This book is also translated into German, Dutch, Chinese, and will soon be published and translated into Italian, Serbian, and Arabic. See also “The River Nile in the Age of the British. Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power”. For more information, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/river-n... ://www.bloomsbury.com/us/nile-9780755616794/ For information on my other books on the Nile and on water and development in general, see https://terjetvedt.w.uib.no/books/.