Wednesday, December 21, 2005

The minorities report :2 The bedouin tribes of the west desert

The minority report "Part 2"
-The Bedouin tribes of West desert 'The forgotten'
First do you know them?
-I am speaking about the Bedouin tribes that live in the west desert starting from Matrouh to Siwa, to the Libyan –Egyptian borders to the many unknown oasis in the vast hard desert.
You only can know them either of three ways: you visit Matrouh and know the place, you watch Reda Folklore dances or you read the Crimes pages.
To tell you the truth I don't have much information about how they live, whether it is good or bad, except from the official media and the governor's statement Mr. general something saying that the government and he served the people of Matrouh and Siwa in the best way and that "very important historical truth" the tribal council or the tribes of Matrouh and Siwa supports the president Mubarak and the NDP and the first lady of Egypt orders helped to improve the Bedouin women's life.
Of course the tribes there got a member in NDP wearing their distinguish custom that looks like the Libyan custom and this NDP member is their member in the Parliament just like in Sinai.
And that's why I feel that those Ethnic groups suffer as the rest of the Egyptian do.
Many of them work in Smuggling whether goods or even drug trafficking, it is not about their perceived Bedouin nature, the gulf area already consists of Bedouin ethnic tribes but they made nations and countries , it is about what the government made from them , did it help them ? I doubt already it didn't give much to the Valley people to help the desert people.
I am sorry it helped them but it did in its way "just like Frank Sinatra".
Example: the Egyptian army and the Egyptian national geographic society " yes we have one from very long time since the 19th century but no one care" reached to the smallest village or oasis in population from couple of years, most of its people can't write or read and there is no communication medium in the Oasis, nothing at all, it was lost in time, President Mubarak then decided to send a present for them
TV Satellite so they can watch the world, after all the world became a small village!!!

2 comments:

  1. i collected some information about sheeiaa from a TV program on al jazeera, important useful information, in case you want to write about them ;)

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  2. please send it to me ,already I am waiting to see some eposides on Dream tv 2 despite the fact I felt from the ad of the coming program will be an anti-Shia

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