Bedu Beddna Naiesh

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Bedu Beddna Naiesh, is a 2020 Egyptian movie, directed by Tekla Taidelli. with a runtime of 57 minutes.

Overview

Bedu Beddna Naiesh is a documentary manifesto chronicling decades of systematic human-rights violations against the Bedouins of Sinai. Weaving together first-person testimonies, archival footage, and eyewitness accounts, the film traces this community's dispossession from the Six-Day War through the tourist boom, the Arab Spring, the Sisi coup, and the rise of ISIS. Stripped of their lands, water, housing, healthcare, and education — and pushed into opium cultivation under police contracts — the Bedouins' plight is crystallized in the story of Mussa'ad Abu Fajr, the sole Bedouin voice who dared speak out through his blog 'Beddna Naiesh' (We Want to Live), for which he spent three years in prison. The film's title is the people's most basic demand: the right to exist.

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