'This is not our life, it's just a copy of other people's': Bedu and the price of 'development' in South Sinai

Nomadic Peoples

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 7-32

  Gilbert, Hilary ^a  

^a Community Foundation for South Sinai ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bedouin; Development; Inequality; Pastoralism; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ARAB WORLD; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PASTORALISM; POVERTY;

EGYPT; SINAI;

EID: 84856937923     PISSN: 08227942     EISSN: 17522366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/np.2011.150203     Document Type: Article

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