Bedouins by the Lake

Bedouins by the Lake
Author: Ahmed Belal
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789774161988

A study of Bedouins adapting to the changing environment of the Nubian Desert

Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins

Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins
Author: Muhammad Suwaed
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442254513

The term ‘Bedouins’ was given to nomads who came from or lived in the desert, and consisted of a sedentary population (from the badia – desert). However, in time, it came to define their social economic essence as: people who raised grazing animals and were compelled to conduct a nomadic life, to live in tents that could be dismantled, carried, and re-erected easily, and to move with their livelihood and living accommodation, according to the environmental conditions — those which provided water and grass. Not all Bedouin tribes are of Arabic origin, as all Muslim nomadic groups in the area adopted the term "Bedouins." There are Bedouin tribes of Turkmen, Kurdish Baluch, and Berberic origin and there are "Arabized" African people and hybrid people, who are categorized as Bedouins. The Historical Dictionary of the Bedouins contains a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Bedouins.

The Claim of Dispossession

The Claim of Dispossession
Author: Arieh L. Avneri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351484990

This study of the Israeli-Arab conflict sheds new light on the historic background of the contemporary Palestinian problem. Unlike other books that treat the political issues of this confl ict, this volume traces the spread of Jewish settlements over the seventy year period before the establishment of the State of Israel, in order to see how it affected the existing Arab community's economy and its social and cultural institutions.

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2022-07-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004514163

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literatures and criticism in response to the global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by anthropogenic climate change.

Zionism’s Maritime Revolution

Zionism’s Maritime Revolution
Author: Kobi Cohen-Hattab
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110629968

Research on Jewish settlement of the Land of Israel in the modern era has long neglected the sea and its shores. This book explores the Yishuv’s hold on the Mediterranean and other bodies of water during the British Mandate in Palestine and the Zionist “maritime revolution,” a shift from a focus on land-based development to an embrace of the sea as a source of security, economic growth, clandestine immigration (haapala), and national pride. The transformation is tracked in four spheres – ports, seamanship, fishery, and education – and viewed within the context of the Jewish/Arab conflict, internal Yishuv politics, and the Second World War. Archives, memoirs, press, and secondary sources all help illuminate the Zionist Movement’s road to maritime sovereignty. By the State of Israel’s founding in 1948, the Yishuv had a flourishing nautical presence: a national shipping company, control over the country’s three active ports, maritime athletics, fish farming, and a nautical training school.