ocean + culture
Ten narratives from Egypt's Red Sea
Texts edited by Heidi Aref.
All photos taken by Serag Heiba unless otherwise stated.
For republishing please contact the author at seragheiba@gmail.com.
With special thanks to Abdalla El Tayeb, Abdallah Taher, Ahmed Amin, Anna Fuglsang, Carlos Diezel, Maja Zamencka, Mariam Tawila, Micol Montagna, Mo Hammoud, Shubhangi Thakur, Zeina Elzomor, and the team at Cairo Analog Society.
A shortened version of "TurtleWatch" appeared in Ocean Generation.
"Dahab Freedivers" was written for and originally published in Oceanographic Magazine​.
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A modified version of "HEPCA" was republished in Issue 12 of Ubuntu Magazine.
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​"Dahab" was republished in Intrepid Times under the title: "Navigating an Uncertain Border Crossing on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt" (February 2025).