Can trained Bedouin guides lure tourists back to Egypt?
A grassroots tourist industry could revitalize a community battered by geopolitical disaster since Egypt's 2011 revolution.
by Bethan Staton
Aug 11, 2017
2 minutes
Hosni Mubarak has been walking the Egyptian desert for most of his life. He knows where to find shelter in a flood, which plants are medicinal and when a storm is coming. As a Bedouin from the Jabaliya tribe, his territory lies in the hills surrounding Mount Sinai, where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments
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