URBANISATION CHALLENGE FOR BEDOUIN IN EGYPT
Monday, 25 Aug 2008
With property in Egypt booming, urban sprawl is spreading up the North Coast and encroaching on traditional Bedouin land. Urban expansion is taking place so rapidly now that some Bedouin tribes, such as the Arab Gharb, who are descended from the Awlad Ali and El Jeimii tribes, originally from the Arabian Peninsula, are finding their culture under threat of being swallowed up by modernisation.
Today’s Bedouin youth, who follow their traditions and have no Western education to ease them into modern life, are facing the harsh reality that the land of their forefathers, which they rely upon for their livelihood, is being sold off to wealthy investors by the government, which claims that it is public property. Demand is on the rise, and developers are snapping up property in Egypt on which to build beach resorts, factories and housing that the poorer Bedouin families can’t afford to buy.
Wealthy Bedouin, some of whom have the dubious reputation of having amassed their wealth through drug-trafficking and selling land, are cashing in on the rising price of Egypt property to line their pockets, while the government pays no heed to the claims of Bedouin who hold deeds that are hand-written and not officially registered. The increasing need for accommodation in Egypt seems set to ensure that the once-common site of Bedouin tents and palm orchards will soon become a rarity, as modern housing replaces these picturesque areas with rows of low cost houses.
The spread of urbanisation is forcing the former tent-dwellers into the modern age against their will, and most are reluctant to face the fact that the desert no longer belongs to them. Only a few realised the true worth of their Egypt property in time to make a profit out of selling it, while for most the loss of their land has only added to their squalor.
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