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A Toyota and Camel: Two popular modes of transport for Bedouin in the Feynan region of Jordan. September 2022. Photo by Ariell Ahearn.

 

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Awassi sheep. Photo by Sacha Mouzin.

 

Donkey carrying newborn goat kids during the spring migration with Shah Goli and Ali Ghoabad’s family in 2023. Photo by Sacha Mouzin

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Therapy in the backyard’: mental health care in Israel’s Bedouin society following the 2023–25 Gaza war

Image above by Jan Jassen Author: Jamal Alkirnawi, A New Dawn in the Negev, Rahat, Israel (jamal@anewdawninthenegev.org)When most people picture therapy, they imagine an office: a couch, a closed door, maybe a box of tissues on a side table.  But in parts of Israel's Bedouin society, therapy is happening somewhere very different — in family compounds, backyard…
13.07.26

Milk and money: relations between camel herders, entrepreneurs and camels at Guelmim-Oued Noun, Morocco

Image above: Two camels in pasture with Jbel Taïssa in the background, Photo B.P. 2026 Author: Bastien Pillon, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France. bastien.pillon.bp@gmail.comThe Saharan region of Guelmim-Oued Noun is the northernmost of the three regions within the camel breeding area in Morocco (the others are Laayoune and Dakhla).…
13.07.26

What Maasai Children Taught Me About Childhood

Image above: Toddlers watching juvenile goats and sheep. Photo by the author (2025). Author: Xiaojie Tian (email: tian.xiaojie.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp), Associate Professor, Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, JapanImagine handing a young child sole responsibility for his or her family’s assets. In most modern households, this idea is almost unthinkable. Most adults would…
13.07.26
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Nomadic Peoples Journal

Nomadic Peoples is an international open-access journal published by the White Horse Press for the Commission on Nomadic Peoples.

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Khangai mountains and steppe of Northern Bayanhongor province, Mongolia. July 2023. Photo by Ariell Ahearn.

Herder ger (traditional mobile dwelling) after a rainstorm in Bayanhongor province, Mongolia. July 2023. Photo by Ariell Ahearn

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