The Poetics of Military Occupation

Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule

Smadar Lavie author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:13th Jan '94

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The Poetics of Military Occupation cover

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.

ISBN: 9780520075528

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 590g

410 pages