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The poetics of military occupation : Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian rule /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 397 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-383) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520911604 0520911601 0585135606 9780585135601 9786612356148 6612356146 |