Farm workers. Nile Delta region, Egypt

The photograph depicts Zeid Ali, a fellahin living in the Nile River Valley. "Zeid Ali, a fellah or farmer, in the new Liberation Province of the western Delta region. This province was carved out of the desert by water from the Rosetta branch of the Nile as part of a land reclamation scheme under the Nasser government's agrarian reform program." [Eliot Elisofon, Laurens Van Der Post, 1964: The Nile, The Viking Press]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.