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Indeed, the governor likens his Egypt-Gaza border to the U.S.-Mexican border, and his security challenges to U.S. terrorism challenges. That may be a stretch. Gaza, a tiny, densely packed territory fenced in by Israel and run internally by the militant Islamist group Hamas, is hardly Mexico. But North...
Local authorities are extremely sensitive about the state of the Bedouin, even if it is reporting on how Bedouin feel about the government. In February, TIME published an article that chronicled the lives and politics of Bedouin who were at odds with the Egyptian government. TIME's sources ranged from...
Israel occupied the Sinai Peninsula from 1967 to 1982, and despite a cold peace between the two states for the past three decades, intense animosity toward the Jewish state continues to dominate the Egyptian national consciousness. To the authorities of North Sinai, then, the sheer notion that there were Bedouin...
Council members shouted demands for the names of sources and locations. They expressed indignation at the mention of pro-Israel Bedouin and the report that some Bedouin even cheered for Algeria (Egypt's fiercest soccer rival) during the final round of the African Cup of Nations. Several council members launched...
Governor Mwafi acknowledges only vaguely that Sinai's cross-border security issues are heavily intertwined with its internal troubles. "My previous job helped me a lot here," he says, "because I know the culture and the mentality of the Bedouin and the people here and [the] needs for special treatment...