"stones and dust" - between the straight of aqaba and the straight of suez lie the mountains and valleys, land of the seven beduin tribes of south sinai. the story of sinai and their people is the struggle for the recognition of their inherited right to the land of their ancestors. this right is older than the rules of the administrations and boarders created by foreign governments. this right is not recognized by the recent administrations and the the fight of the local population to claim their inherited rights are forced into informality - more on http://bluestreets.org/series/753
"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression." T.E. Lawrence
