The Translation of Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev
FAIN: RL-037079-79
Unaffiliated independent scholar
Clinton Bailey (Project Director: March 1979 to present)
To transcribe and translate, from Arabic to English, approximately 350 of the bedouin poems recorded in Sinai and Negev since 1970. The poems will contribute to humanistic knowledge in folk literature, anthropology, history, theology and linguistics.