The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule

by Smadar Lavie

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The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin land has been a political football, tossed back and forth between Israel and Egypt at least five times.
  • ISBN10 0520911601
  • ISBN13 9780520911604
  • Publish Date 16 October 1990
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 25 January 2021
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Edition Revised ed.
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 398
  • Language English