The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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. In her moving firsthand account, anthropologist Smadar Lavie asks how the South Sinai Mzeina have adapted to constant military rule. Knowing that open confrontation with the occupier could mean beatings, jail, even death, these Bedouin have created their own form of resistance in which the author sees "the poetics of military occupation."Read More

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  • 0520075528
  • 9780520075528
  • S Lavie
  • 13 January 1994
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 412
  • New Ed
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