On the road from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, the traveler can glimpse an evocative sight in a wadi that runs down from the Judean hills — flocks of sheep and herds of goats, the men and women who tend ...

Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's ...

The fourth Rahat Film Festival brought 4,000 visitors for screenings, filmmaker encounters, city tours, and a celebration of ...

Today the children had the opportunity to present to the public a book they produced entitled “Folktales from the Jahalin tents” ” which is a collection of traditional Bedouin fairytales. Salha, a ...

Early on in the anthropology book Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, the author, Lila Abu-Lughod, admits that she came to be embedded in an Awlad 'Ali Bedouin family only ...

AL-SHAKRIYEH, Jordan >> A coming-of-age drama set among Bedouin tribesmen roaming the desert emerged as the first potential Oscar contender produced by Jordan’s nascent film industry. “Theeb” (Wolf), ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) – The movie “Sand Storm,” Israel’s entry for Academy Award consideration, has won prestigious awards and glowing reviews in its limited release by defying almost every rule of ...

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After 50 years of fieldwork in the Negev and Sinai deserts, an Israeli researcher donated his rare archive to the National Library of Israel. By Isabel Kershner JERUSALEM — When Clinton Bailey first ...

So if you’ve ever visited the ice-cold city of Toronto, you’ll know that when it comes to music and culture, it’s one of the biggest melting pots North America has to offer. With relaxed immigration ...