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Bedouin women lead first tour in Egypt’s Sinai

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Umm Yasser, the first Bedouin f...ime are working as tour guides.

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Umm Yasser, the first Bedouin female guide from the Hamada tribe, looks at Umm Soliman as she plays the flute, near Wadi Sahw, Abu Zenima, in South Sinai, Egypt on March 2019. Umm Yasser is breaking new ground among the deeply conservative Bedouin of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Women among the Bedouin almost never work outside the home, and even more rarely do they interact with outsiders. But Umm Yasser is one of four women from the community who for the first time are working as tour guides.

Abu Zenima, South Sinai.

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Abu Zenima, South Sinai.

Aicha, from the Hamada tribe an...sts on a trek in the mountains.

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Aicha, from the Hamada tribe and one of the first female guides, plays the flute for tourists on a trek in the mountains.

Abu Zenima, South Sinai.

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Abu Zenima, South Sinai.

Abu Zenima, South Sinai.

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Abu Zenima, South Sinai.

Zahra looks at 'Yolanda...r's home, in Wadi Sahw.

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Zahra looks at 'Yolanda' the baby goat in Umm Yasser's home, in Wadi Sahw.

Wadi Sahw, Abu Zenima.

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Wadi Sahw, Abu Zenima.

Umm Yasser offers tea during a women's only circle.

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Umm Yasser offers tea during a women's only circle.

The first female Bedouin guides...Umm Soliman, Aicha, and Selima.

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The first female Bedouin guides Umm Yasser, Umm Soliman, Aicha, and Selima.

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