November 26, 2012 - 9:00am
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 <em>New York Review of Books</em> about the Sinai and the Bedouin tribes that control it.