Word: bedouin
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...Egypt's Arab character actually is limited, even though the country's official language is Arabic and its formal religion Islam. Bedouin Arabs constitute a sizable minority, but so do Copts and Nubians. Ethnically the predominant Egyptian is a Mediterranean rather than Arabian man, and he has changed surprisingly little since pharaonic times...
...picture fastidiously: each scene attains its own symmetry, and is skillfully cantilevered with narrative thrust to the next scene. The film rarely lags. One of the more obvious examples of Lean's technical prowess is the sequence depicting Lawrence's initial desert journey and his growing friendship with his Bedouin guide. It is composed of strict horizontal pans flatly cut by two-shots or close-ups of the camel-mounted pair. When panning with them. Lean cuts both on movement and desert shapes so that not only is the motion shown, but the traveling feeling expressed. When he cuts into...
...leave Algeria and were on their way to another guerrilla training ground: Jordan. Palestinian terrorists have trained radicals from West Germany, Nicaragua and the U.S. in camps outside Amman. A Canadian journalist touring a guerrilla camp in the Jordanian mountains, was astonished to find two young Montrealers in Bedouin headgear learning the craft of "selective assassination." The youths, both members of the F.L.Q., thought that problems with language and unfamiliar Soviet weapons were a small price to pay for "military training which we can easily put into practice when we get back." Recently, eight Panthers received six weeks of instruction...
...Hashemite kings of Jordan set in motion the forces that have led to this shift in loyalties. Amman was a dusty musabilah, or market town, when King Abdullah, Hussein's grandfather, made it the capital of his new kingdom in 1921. Most of the country's Bedouins roamed Transjordan's eastern deserts, proud and hawklike men who scorned as inferiors the Arabs in cities. Allah made the Bedouin and the camel, they were wont to say, and then Allah made the town Arab out of the camel's droppings...
...fedayeen, non-Palestinian Jordanians are not bent on overthrowing Hussein, but the King's attempts to repress the guerrillas have turned many of that group against him. Even neutral Jordanians were repelled by the brutality of Hussein's army. In Amman, Bedouin soldiers slew wounded guerrillas, some while they lay helpless on stretchers. Others looted stores and houses and raped women at gunpoint. Onlookers insist that these were not Jordanian at all, but the Bedouin mercenaries from Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia who constitute a third of Hussein's army. "These foreign legionnaires didn't look...