The Poetics of Military Occupation
Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19929752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ted Swedenburg, Smadar Lavie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Issue | 178 |
| Pages | 44 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Venue | Middle East Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0899-2851 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3012990 |
| OpenAlex | W615517960 |
| Open Library | OL35888773M |
| ISBN | 9780520911604 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 115 |
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
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 88 |