Monday, November 26, 2012

Sinai Peninsula Often Ignored In Coverage Of Egypt

Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET

November 26, 2012

While attention has been focused on Egyptian protests and hostilities between Gaza and Israel, the land between those two stories has been largely ignored. The Sinai Peninsula, while a part of Egypt, exists in a world of its own. Robert Siegel speaks with reporter Nicolas Pelham about his new article in the New York Review of Books about the Sinai and the Bedouin tribes that control it.

 
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