Summary
American professor in Philadelphia and author of Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin (2010), who has conducted research in the planned Bedouin town of Segev Shalom since the early 1990s (Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, PDF p.15-16).
Details
- First encountered the Negev Bedouin as an American high school student from Buffalo on an exchange program in Qiryat Gat in 1978, seeing Bedouin from an Egged bus window on the way to the Be’er Sheva market (PDF p.15).
- Working as a middle-aged professor in Philadelphia, he returned to the Negev with his family in 2007; the Preface scene is dated 23 March 2007, near Hatzerim (PDF p.15).
- His Segev Shalom research used four anonymous household surveys (1993, 1996, 2000, 2007), interviews, focus groups and participant/observation (PDF p.18).
- He held a Fulbright Senior Research Grant hosted by Haifa University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies in Spring 2007, and a Philadelphia University Faculty Research Grant for research in 2000 (PDF p.22).
Related pages
Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin, Segev Shalom, Naqab