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Bedouin, Settlers and Holiday-makers: Egypt's Changing Northwest Coast
Author(s): Soraya Altorki (Author), Donald B. Cole (Author)
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication Date: 30 Sept. 1998
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789774244841
- ISBN-13: 9774244842
Book Description
Focusing on the northwest coast of Egypt, this historically informed study examines change and development in the region and the integration of desert regions within the wider state political economies.
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About the Author
Donald Cole and Soraya Altorki are both professors of anthropology at the American University in Cairo, and each has independently pioneered ethnographic research in Saudi Arabia. Altorki is the author of Women in Saudi Arabia: Ideology and Behavior Among the Elite. Cole is the author of Nomads of the Nomads: The Al-Murrah Bedouin of the Empty Quarter. Their previous collaborations include Arabian Oasis City: Transformation of Unayzah.
