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OMAN: TV5 SCREENS LIFE OF BEDOUIN IN SHARQIYAH.
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According to "Oman Observer", French language TV5 recently screened a documentary about the life of Bedouin people in the Rimal al Sharqiyah sands. The film featured Bedouin life as depicted by a team that visited...
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TV5 SCREENS LIFE OF BEDOUIN IN SHARQIYAH
Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
; According to "Oman Observer", French language TV5 recently screened a documentary about the life of Bedouin people in the Rimal al Sharqiyah sands. The film featured Bedouin life as depicted by a team that visited the eastern Oman desert area. It showed how the Bedouin move across the desert and
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Outsiders In The Holy Land; Proverbs and survival in Bedouin culture
The New York Jewish Week
; To eavesdrop on a culture, listen to its proverbs. One of the oldest literary genres, proverbs are compressed moral and practical instructions, philosophical sound bites, passed across the chain of generations. "Short sentences drawn from long experience," wrote Miguel de Cervantes, who gave Sancho
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The Bedouins and the Desert: Aspects of Nomadic Life in the Arab East
The Middle East Journal
; The Bedouins and the Desert: Aspects of Nomadic Life in the Arab East, by Jibrail S. Jabbur. Tr. by Lawrence I. Conrad. Ed. by Suhayl J. Jabbur and Lawrence I. Conrad. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxix + 537 pages. Appends. to p. 642. Bibl. to p. 653. Index to p. 670. $29.50.
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A Culture of Desert Survival: Bedouin Proverbs from Sinai and the Negev
The Middle East Journal
; SOCIAL CONDITIONS A Culture of Desert Survival: Bedouin Proverbs from Sinai and the Negev, by Clinton Bailey. Foreword by William W. Hallo. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2004. xxi + 432 pages. Gloss, to p. 464. Notes to p. 469. Bibl. to p. 472. Index to p. 478. $75. A growing body of
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DUBAI: UNLEASHING THE FALCON AT THE DUBAI SHOPPING FESTIVAL.
IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ... the Heritage Village's Al Hadheera to watch this sport, which once was an essential part of Bedouin life in this region, Gulf News Daily reports. In the old days falconry was practiced for the pragmatic purpose of supplementing the sparse diet of bread, dates ...
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Modern way of life beckons
Chicago Sun-Times
; Israel's 150,000 Bedouins are descendants of the tribes that roamed the deserts of the Middle East, unfettered by borders or national allegiances. Hassan abu Quaider, 28, one of a number of young, educated Bedouins who are organizing to lobby the Israeli government for recognition and benefits for
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SABRIYA HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT FESTIVAL ENDED
Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
; According to Al-Horria newspaper (September 1, 2005), under the patronage of the Governor of the Sabriya Governorate, Mr. Al-Tayeb Al- Rakoubi, the Third Edition of the Sabriya Heritage and Environment Festival ended last Sunday. Nearly 300 actors and actresses participated in this four-day
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TUNISIA: SABRIYA HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT FESTIVAL ENDED.
IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; According to Al-Horria newspaper (September 1, 2005), under the patronage of the Governor of the Sabriya Governorate, Mr. Al-Tayeb Al-Rakoubi, the Third Edition of the Sabriya Heritage and Environment Festival ended last Sunday. Nearly 300 actors and actresses participated in this four-day
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an Englishwoman abroad How the shipbuilders keep their distant families afloat
The Sunday Telegraph London
; `When my family gave up the traditional Bedouin life," Juma tells me, "I began to work on the dhows. I was nine years old." We are in Oman, wandering along the shore at Sur and heading towards the clanking of hammers coming from the dhow shipyard. Battered dhows lie on the beach, the wood faded and
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Bedouins of Qatar
Domes
; Roberta L. Dougherty Domes 02-28-1995 Bedouins of Qatar. Bedouins of Qatar is a time capsule. It presents research performed thirty-five years ago which the author himself recognizes as "out of step with modern trends in ethnography" (p. 29). Its detailed description of Qatari Bedouin life,
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