Bedouins College Essays Samples For Students

In this essay I’m going to talk about political and social alienation in Egypt based off an article reflecting recent happenings in the said country. The article is titled “Sinai Explodes Into Violence After Years of Chronic Poverty and Alienation” The theme portrayed in the article is mainly alienation, alongside other themes such as poverty, marginalization and violence, which clearly brings out the alienation of the Bedouins, an ethnic group in Egypt. I chose the article because the Bedouins have several characteristics which alienate them from other Egyptians. The characteristics are; permanent nomadic lifestyle, low population and geographical ...

I would like to start my analysis by introducing a little bit the movie background and how it was filmed. Almost all members of royal family of Jordan are Arabs related to the Hashemite dynasty, who consider themselves to be direct descendants of Prophet Muhammad. The exception is Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein which is maternal Circassians. Sometime ago he came up with the idea to make a film about the Circassians living in Jordan. Choosing the director for the movie, Prince did not hesitate for too long. He called Mohy Quandour, who was living in London, known as many-sided ...

Bedouins is one of the primarily desert-dwelling ethnic groups of the Arabic origin. The Bedouin are well known for their nomadic lifestyle, agricultural activities, and fishing, but on rare occasions. It is also argued that having mastered the challenges and hardships of the desert, they sometimes augmented their sources of income through providing transportation services for other people across the desert (Abu-Lughod, 11). Due to lack of water and pastoral land, the Bedouins were always on the move in search of the same for their animals. However, over time, the lifestyle of this ethnic group has shifted significantly. Particularly, ...

The book “Cities of Salt,” written by a Jordanian-born Saudi writer, Abd al-Rahman Munif is one of the ancient literary works, which narrates the transition of human history from one era of civilization to another . The book is a translation from the Arabic by Peter Theroux. It gives a detailed account of the conflicts between the traditions and modernity. The author describes how an unnamed Arab emirate transforms from a traditional nomadic life-style to a modern, oil producing state. The arrival of foreigners with their machines, cars and deserts into the emirate marks the beginning of the confrontations between the traditions of the indigenous ...

American and Arabic films are fundamentally different as espoused in Lina Khatib’s article. In movies containing American and Arabic characters, American characters appear superior to their Arabic counterparts in the manner in which they are presented. This is clearly evident in the movie Lawrence of Arabia.
Lina Khatib’s categorically states that the outdoors scenes are masculine especially on the scenes from the desert and the harsh terrain which is more masculine (Khatib 24). The film scenes in Lawrence of Arabia are mostly shot in a harsh desert environment. A point to note though is that the Arabs ...

English

The English patient is a painful story of four people residing in an Italian Villa in the hills of Tuscany during world war second. It is a historical reminiscence of an English patient who is burnt beyond recognition, a nurse serving and taking care of the patient in the dangerous villa ignoring the dangers of mines and bombs in the villa, an Indian Sikh sapper who is an expert in diffusing bombs and a thief. The novel deals with the traumatic experiences of the four characters during the war and the identity crisis of the people. It is the painful story of the ...