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Writing Women's Worlds
True stories of Bedouin women in Egypt
Desert Voices
The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here, Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us with the first comparative reading of women's oral poetry from Saudi Arabia. She examines women's lyrics of love, desire, mourning and grievance. We come to understand Bedouin mores and - most significantly - the unique description of a desert that is consistently held to be infinite, evocative, stimulating and an eternal freedom. As the first English translation and analysis of this poetry, "Desert Voices" is both a gesture to preserving the oral poetic tradition of Bedouin women and a radical critique addressing the exclusion of their poetry from current academic literary studies. The book provides invaluable material for reflection in the debates around oral culture and women's poetic composition while it translates, presents and critically examins a genre, which opens Arabic poetry and literature to contemporary theory and criticism.
Weaving Tradition and Modernity
Bedouin Arab women in Higher Education are exposed to many differing, yet intersecting, worlds. This volume provides insight into the complex personal, academic and social worlds of these young women - primarily through their own words and voices. Those in Academia have tended to characterize Arab/Muslim women, as silence and silenced by an oppressive culture and religion. But are they really silent? This monograph provides an opportunity for listening to the voices and glimpsing the agency of these path-breaking women. As such, it provides a foundation for understanding the impact of higher education upon their lives and society, and upon their future development.
Veiled Sentiments
First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod’s analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning—for all involved—of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers.
Kawkab
"Kawkab - Remarkable Bedouin Women" offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of seven Bedouin women. All live in the Negev, all are active in transforming the reality of a society in transition, where tradition, culture, and religion are deeply intertwined, yet vulnerable to the winds of change. The narratives are told in first-person accounts, allowing each woman to share her own journey. The three accounts in Part I are the stories of three women who pursued higher education and strived to realize abilities and rights that they were taught to confine to the privacy of their homes. Part II presents the poignant chronicles of two women who after suffering loss and bereavement and managed to...
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Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates
Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917), daughter of the Earl of Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord Byron, is known as an adventurous traveler to the Middle East and the most accomplished horsewoman and breeder of Arabian stock of her era. She was married to poet and diplomat Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922). When he inherited a family estate in Sussex in 1872, the couple was able to establish a stud at their Crabbet Park home. They then traveled in the Middle East to purchase Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen, which they transported back to England. In 1878 Lady Anne journeyed from Beirut, across northern Syria, and south through Mesopotamia to Baghdad. From there she traveled north along the Tigri...
