FARAFRA OASIS, Egypt — Amm Abd Rabu Abu el-Nour missed most of World War II. “News from outside didn’t reach the oasis back then,” the Bedouin elder, 74, recalled as one of his granddaughters entered ...
Before Qatar became a resource-rich oasis lined with skyscrapers and fancy shopping malls, the arid peninsula was inhabited by nomadic tribes that travelled across its golden sand dunes on camelback, ...
A recent day brings welcome news for the small group of young Bedouin women who come to this tin shed in a corner of their windswept desert village every week to study. “Funding has come through so ...
Reporting from Jerusalem — — Ezry Keydar and Nadav Ben Israel, two Israeli filmmakers, began making a documentary last year about a Bedouin man’s dream of restoring camel races and cultural ...
Unlike most of her peers on the hotshot contemporary design scene, Katrin Greiling doesn’t live in Sweden or Denmark or the Netherlands. Sure, her works are sometimes bought by rich Middle Easterners.
Ishmael Khaldi gave a speech about his dual identity as a member of both the traditionally nomadic Bedouin community and as part of a contemporary Israeli society on Monday night. Although not a ...
Bedouin men lead tourists on a camel ride near Arad, Israel. Photo credit: Hillel Kuttler. As a tour bus parked in Israel's setting sun, Bedouin boys speedily galloped by on donkeys. Moments later, ...
On the road from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, the traveler can glimpse an evocative sight in a wadi that runs down from the Judean hills — flocks of sheep and herds of goats, the men and women who tend ...
09/09/2014 - VENICE 2014: Interview with Naji Abu Nowar, who just received the Orizzonti Award for Best Director for his film Theeb, which depicts the life of Bedouins during World War I film profile] ...
Aviv Agam, a recently discharged IDF soldier, was attacked violently Thursday night and robbed by Bedouin in facemasks. “Just before 1 AM, I was sitting in the car with my girlfriend in a parking lot ...
On the occasion of the 60 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights we introduce the first story in our series profiling the sad gap between the rhetoric of dignity and justice for ...