Massaad Abu-Fajr

Massaad Abu-Fajr is a prominent political and civil rights activist and writer from the Sinai Bedouin tribes. For his activities, he was arrested by the Egyptian state in 2007 and detained for 30 months when local and global rights organizations and Sinai Bedouin tribes demanded his release. Abu Fajr participated in starting the Arab Spring and later represented the Sinai Bedouin tribes in drafting the Egyptian constitution. An advocate of rights for women, children, and minorities, he holds a BA from Cairo University, wrote hundreds of articles, and has presented at human rights centers and universities. His novel, Talaat Al Badaan, was published in 2010.

Cultural Genocide in the Sinai Peninsula: The Egyptian State’s Attempts to Exterminate Bedouin Tribes and Culture

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“The United States of America pays 50 million dollars annually to support development in the Sinai Peninsula,” a diplomat at the American Embassy in Cairo told me during a small tea party that the embassy held in my honor to celebrate my release from prison in August 2010. I told him that this was the

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