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The Poetics of Military Occupation

Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule

Bibliographic Data

ID19929752
AuthorsTed Swedenburg, Smadar Lavie (corresponding author)
Year1992
Issue178
Pages44
Publication date1992-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
VenueMiddle East Report (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0899-2851
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3012990
OpenAlexW615517960
Open LibraryOL35888773M
ISBN9780520911604
LanguageEN
Citations received115

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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