The Daughter of Sheikh Al-Araban, Paperback Book, By: Miral Eltahawy

This book stirs stagnant waters, provokes broad intellectual movement, and reveals unspoken areas in modern Egyptian history. The daughter of the Arabs, in the language of a novelist and an academic, talks about identity, origin, and the strange worlds of the Bedouins. She narrates the stories of grandmothers and what they inherited from the tribe, and asks her essential question: Did the Bedouins melt away and mix with Egyptian society, or did they continue to constitute an ethnic and racial minority within society? Who created this isolation? How did this split identity of the Bedouins mature? In this book, Miral El-Thewy, with rare boldness and courage, explores that thorny relationship between the Bedouins and the Egyptian owners of the land, between the tribe and the cultivated land, between the urban and the Bedouin, that conflict between two cultures that shared Egypt's history, land, and wealth, and coexisted for centuries; But this proximity did not erase the shadows of that confused relationship between two opposing parties, each of whom continued to despise and sanctify his rival at the same time.