Laura Jean Zito • Magnetic Sinai
The Bedouin’s old style of building isn’t
safe from marauders any more and
gone are the gentle, quiet open-air days.
The new external threat is the Egyptian
government hoping to move millions to
Dahab from Cairo. The infiltration into
the Bedouin village of foreigners may be
impossible to halt, as already Egyptians
and Europeans now live side by side in
Ossela. Now people compete for the
proximity to the shoreline, disregarding
rules to build 30 feet back. Instead of
preserving the oasis as a common garden
for all, many developers chopped down
the date palms, or just built around
them! The Bedouin culture may well die
out altogether in the next fifty years as
Bedouin now fight with other Bedouin
over the possession of lands instead
of reaching together toward common
goals, such as keeping their village intact.
The young are under the influence of the
West now and drugs are infiltrating their
world along with materialistic values.
TIME BRINGS
CHANGE,
and, it used to be, under Israeli rule, the
Musseina were extremely restrictive about
letting