The Naqab Bedouins

Written by Mansour Nasasra, one of the most distinguished scholars of Arab history, this is the most comprehensive existing survey of the Bedouin Arab tribes of the Naqab desert in southern Palestine over the last century (the ‘Negeb’ region of old British Empire maps and a highly significant area for exploratory studies). Its interpretive power lies in the rare intersection between clarity of exposition and a sophisticated historiographical analysis of the Bedouin as a pastoral nomadic (and semi-nomadic) indigenous folk group, and their ideas and multiple forms of non-violent (mostly cultural and economic) resistance. The Naqab Bedouins – A Century of Politics and Resistance offers an insightful analysis of the social and economic factors that propelled the spread of new forms of political and religious allegiances by Bedouin Arab tribes subject to the Ottomans, the British and currently the Israelis.