Summary
Author of The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People (2012), who teaches Middle East politics and International Relations in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, with a broad interest in the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, in particular the indigenous Bedouin of the Naqab (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.1, 24 / printed p.81, 104).
Details
- The article’s position is declared in its own text: “I have chosen to adopt the concept of ‘indigenous people’ as a form of Bedouin identity and resistance and to raise the voice of the community” (PDF p.8 / printed p.88).
- The Biographical Note states that the main thrust of his work was based on oral history interviews and archival materials, including numerous oral history interviews with the indigenous Bedouin of the Naqab and Beersheba region, and that during his doctoral research he spent considerable time in the main Israeli, Palestinian and British archives (PDF p.24 / printed p.104).
- His earlier journalism is cited in the article’s own notes: ‘Before you Expel the Bedouin’, Haaretz, 23 September 2011, and ‘Ethnic Cleansing Plan Passes Knesset: 30,000 Bedouin Face Forced Relocation’, Electronic Intifada, 1 October 2011 (notes 73-74).
Related pages
The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Naqab, Al-Araqib, Indigeneity