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WATCH this BBC film with Edward Said returning to Jerusalem. At 23:00 he visits the Jahalin displaced in 1998 as the bulldozers are there, at Maale Adumim. Amazing documentary. One cannot imagine it being allowed to be made or released today. Amazing.

August 2012 Palestinian Bedouins in the Israeli-occupied Jordan Valley struggle to cling on to an age-old way of life. Stretching from Mozambique in southeast Africa to Syria in the Middle East, the Great Rift Valley is home to the world’s lowest city, Jericho, which was established over 10,000 years ago. Farmers …

World of Law: Bedouin Law ” […] The video is called “A Law of Honor and Contract,” and it’s centered around a conversation I had in Manhattan with my friend Frank, one of the leading Western authorities on Bedouin law. One way to appreciate the depth of Frank’s expertise is to …

A documentary film by Lipika Pelham about Shlomo Lecker, lawyer for the Jahalin. Synopsis Israel says that it is planning to remove and relocate 2300 Bedouins from the Judean desert, east of Jerusalem. The plan will eventually evacuate an estimated 27,500 Bedouins living in the West Bank, which Israel occupied in …

West Bank Bedouin fear eviction Residents of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank have an Israeli military demolition order hanging over their homes and their school. The villagers, who fled to the area after Israel’s War of Independence, are among 30,000 Bedouin that Israel wants to relocate from …

[Note: The battle has not been lost yet. We are still awaiting a court decision on the demolition and relocation of the school.]    September 2012 ANYONE driving along the highway from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea would find it easy to miss: a small school built from old car …

Paul Murphy speaks against the oppression of the Jahalin Bedouins by the Israeli state. Demolition orders have been passed to destroy their homes in the Ma’ale Adumim settlement district. The Jahalin Bedouins are one of the poorest communities on the West Bank. The Israeli state plan to move them to …

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Bedouin Cultural Centre – Jebeliya the mountain people of South Sinai April 2011 Click here to watch the video! The Jebeliya community has unique traditions related to each stage of their life cycle. Traditions related to the life cycle vary: there might be specific clothes to be worn by at …

… and now for the good news For centuries, tribal peoples have had their lands stolen and suffered violence and oppression. But things are changing… join us in celebrating some of the reasons for optimism.