This ethnographic account of a conglomerate of Egyptian villages in the western desert‎,‎ envisaged as a government project to resettle populations from the Nile Valley and Delta‎,‎ looks at how Abu Minqar‎'‎s existence is contingent upon social and spatial networks that reach beyond the boundaries of the physical community‎.‎ Through marriage‎,‎ spatial distribution‎,‎ and agricultural practices‎,‎ social spaces become apparent and illustrate the unbounded nature of Abu Minqar and the role of various networks in constituting its everyday experiences of pasts‎,‎ presents‎,‎ and futures‎.‎