Cultural legacy
It's amazing how a waterway can inspire so much art and music over decades. I didn't know about simsimiyya-folk music born from labour and resistance is incredibly powerful. Have you encountered any of these works?
Suez Canal at 70: The music, films, art and literature that tell its story | The National
From simsimiyya folk songs to deliberately empty pedestals, the waterway has inspired Egyptians to chronicle conflict, displacement and national identity