Qualla: Blue Nile https://qualla.com/blue-nile en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Blue Nile https://qualla.com/blue-nile Blue Nile: Introduction https://qualla.com/blue-nile/ In Amharic it is called Tis Abay - 'great smoke.' The name refers to the Blue Nile Falls, where the river drops in a curtain of spray so thick that tour guides arrive by the roadful. The water rising at Gish Abay, a spring in the hills of Sekela, does not look world-changing. It looks like water. It is water. But by the time that water reaches Khartoum 1,450 kilometres later and joins the White Nile at the confluence the Arabs call al-Mogran - 'the meeting' - it is carrying 85 percent of everything the Nile will deliver to Egypt in the rainy season.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/d/blue-nile-wp/sf4d-blue-nile-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Blue Nile: Gish Abay https://qualla.com/blue-nile/ The Blue Nile starts quietly. At Gish Abay in the Ethiopian highlands, where Amhara farmers live at 2,700 metres, a spring emerges into what Ethiopians have long considered a holy place - one of the rivers of Eden, the biblical Gihon, given to them by God. The water flows south, ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/d/blue-nile-wp/sf4d-blue-nile-gish-abay.mp3 0:06 2 full Blue Nile: The Canyon That Would Not Let Men Pass https://qualla.com/blue-nile/ The first European to see the source was the Spanish Jesuit Pedro Paez on 21 April 1618. The Portuguese Joao Bermudes had described the Tis Abay Falls in memoirs published in 1565. But the canyon defeated everyone who tried to pass through it until the 20th century. The American ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/d/blue-nile-wp/sf4d-blue-nile-the-canyon-that-would-not-let-men-pass.mp3 0:06 3 full Blue Nile: Egypt's Lifeline, Ethiopia's Leverage https://qualla.com/blue-nile/ Egypt has feared for a thousand years that Ethiopia might block its water. It is not an idle fear. Fifty-nine percent of the water that reaches Egypt originates from the Ethiopian highlands. In the medieval period the threat was religious - Ethiopian emperors reminded Egypt's Cop...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/d/blue-nile-wp/sf4d-blue-nile-egypts-lifeline-ethiopias-leverage.mp3 0:06 4 full Blue Nile: Black Water in the Flood Season https://qualla.com/blue-nile/ From June to September the summer monsoon saturates the Ethiopian highlands. The Blue Nile takes that rain and carries it down through the canyon as flood, stripping fertile topsoil from the plateaux and transporting it as silt. The water turns dark brown - almost black. For most...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/d/blue-nile-wp/sf4d-blue-nile-black-water-in-the-flood-season.mp3 0:06 5 full Blue Nile: The Broken Bridge and the Bridges to Prosperity https://qualla.com/blue-nile/ In 2000 an American named Kenneth Frantz saw a photo in National Geographic of ten men on each side of a broken bridge over the Blue Nile, pulling each other across the gap with rope. The bridge had been built by Emperor Fasilides around 1660 using Roman bridge-building technique...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/f/4/d/blue-nile-wp/sf4d-blue-nile-the-broken-bridge-and-the-bridges-to-prosperity.mp3 0:06 6 full