Every April, the sheep in Israel’s southern Negev are sheared by their Bedouin herders, beginning a process that ends with the production of hefty rugs woven by women from this Bedouin village using ...

Amid a stunning vista of desert mountains, a Bedouin woman, Umm Yasser, paused to point out a local plant, and she began to explain how it was used in medicine to the group of foreign tourists she was ...

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 ...

In a Bedouin community in the Jordan Valley, 16-year-old Firyal lives without reliable access to health or education and her family must bring in water to their hamlet by tractor and cistern. Her ...

UMM AL-KHAIR, Sudan — Nearly two dozen Bedouin women, enrobed in black, sat on the floor of a modest hut that baked under the desert sun of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The room was quiet, the ...

As a child growing up among Israel's Bedouin in the Negev, Amal Abu-Alkom was denied a formal education. In spite of obstacles, she founded and manages the nongovernmental organization “Bedouin Women ...

Every morning, Hana’a Abokaf leaves her village on the slopes of the Negev Desert, where electricity is powered by a generator and camels and goats graze near cinderblock and tin houses. Abokaf, 20, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines how three generations of Bedouin women in southern Israel express what home means to them through the names they give it ...

ABU ZENIMA, Egypt — As Umm Yasser reeled off her household chores — collect wood, cook, make bread, shepherd goats — she stopped to say why she decided to also lead trail hikes through the mountains ...

ABU ZENIMA, Egypt — Amid a stunning vista of desert mountains, a Bedouin woman, Umm Yasser, paused to point out a local plant, and she began to explain how it was used in medicine to the group of ...