Sinai Uprising

Nicholas Pelham's "In Sinai: The Uprising of the Bedouin," from the New York Review of Books, Dec. 6, 2012.

Egypt's Bedouins begin to demand equal citizenship rights

Read it here, from The Guardian, June 17, 2011.

Resources on the Sinai

Useful articles on the Sinai:

Laleh Behbehenian, "Policing the Illicit Peripheries of Egypt's Tourism Industry," Middle East Report 216, Fall 2000.

Abdel-Rahman Hussein, "Sinai Bedouins suffer repeated crackdowns in a year of tension." Daily News Egypt, Dec. 22, 2009.

Amirah Ibrahim, "Hopes for Conciliation." Al-Ahram Weekly, 3-9 December, 2008.