Mzeina Bedouin

Mzeina Bedouin¹ (also spelled Muzzeina² and Muzeina³) are a Arab Bedouin tribe in the southern Sinai Peninsula. It is the largest group of Bedouin people in Sinai.

The town of Dahab is home to one of the largest populations of Mzeina in Sinai, Bedouin people have lived in this town (once a small oasis and fishing village) for over 800 years. The Bedouin people in Sinai today face similar challenges to their neighbours throughout the Middle East. Their way of life has changed much and they are losing much of their cultural heritage.

References

Lavie, Smadar (1990). The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07552-8.
Keighley, Paul Sanchez (12 May 2019). "The American Jew who fought ISIS, and was then exiled from Israel". Jerusalem Post. Apart from the Beduin who host him, a small clan of the Mzeina tribe, we're alone for kilometers around. This is his story.
Arensburg, Baruch; Hershkovitz, Israel; Kobyliansky, E.; Micle, S. (1979). "Southern sinai bedouin tribes : preliminary communication on an anthropological survey / Les tribus bédouins du sud Sinaï; communication préliminaire sur leur anthropologie; considérations générales". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. 6 (4): 363–372. doi:10.3406/bmsap.1979.1973.

External links

[1] Lavie, Smadar (1990). The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07552-8.

[2] Keighley, Paul Sanchez (12 May 2019). "The American Jew who fought ISIS, and was then exiled from Israel". Jerusalem Post. Apart from the Beduin who host him, a small clan of the Mzeina tribe, we're alone for kilometers around. This is his story.

[3] Arensburg, Baruch; Hershkovitz, Israel; Kobyliansky, E.; Micle, S. (1979). "Southern sinai bedouin tribes : preliminary communication on an anthropological survey / Les tribus bédouins du sud Sinaï; communication préliminaire sur leur anthropologie; considérations générales". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. 6 (4): 363–372. doi:10.3406/bmsap.1979.1973.

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