Bedouins return to the soil in Egypt as Covid-19 kills tourism
As tourism, one of the country’s leading sources of GDP, is decimated, the ever-adaptable Bedouin return to living off the land
08 November 2020 - 05:47
Saint Catherine — For years, Um Saad has been urging fellow Bedouins to tend their orchards and vegetable patches in the mountains of Egypt’s South Sinai. It took a pandemic for them to listen to her.
Tourism, her community’s main source of income, has been wobbly for years — rattled by militant attacks and political unrest. But Covid-19 has decimated the sector, encouraging many Bedouins to go back to the livelihoods of their ancestors...
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