1 The poet Slīmān Ibn ʿEdēsān (circa 1910–1992), the 1980s 5
2 A tent and sheds in Rahat, 1972 12
3 A tent and newly built houses in Tel Sheva (Tall as-Sabaʿ), the first town established for the Bedouin in the Negev, November 1969 12
4 Bedouin performing the Dabke dance during a Bedouin cultural festival, July 1968 13
5 Bedouin demonstrating the ritual of preparing coffee during a Bedouin cultural festival, July 1968 13
6 The boundaries of the Negev’s tribal confederations, 1934 26
7 A Bedouin playing the Rebab, early British Mandate period 34
8 Wadi ash-Shallālah, camels drinking from a desert brook, early British Mandate period 56
9 Wadi ash-Sharīʿah, watering camels with a Bedouin garment, early British Mandate period 56
10 Aref al-Aref at Sheikh Nūrān, mid or late 1930s 57
11 Three generations of the Gaysiyyah in the village of aẓ-Ẓāhiriyyah, February 1940 57
12 Between Wadi ash-Shallālah and Wadi ash-Sharīʿah, El-ʿImāra, Survey of Palestine, original scale: 1:25,000, 1945 71
13 American Colony member Jock Vester with Sheikh Hussein Abu Sittah (1885–1970), the paramount Sheikh of the Tarābīn, June 1938 79
14 Gaza, unknown date 98
15 Ottoman machine gun corps defending the Gaza line during the Second Battle of Gaza, April 1917 98
16 Sir Herbert Samuel, the first High Commissioner for Palestine, meeting tribal leaders in front of the Grand Mosque in Beersheba, November 1920 99
17 Tribal lunch at a cavalry post, about 32 km (some 20 miles) north of Beersheba, Gawain Westray Bell (Acting District Commissioner) conversing with Sheikh Ḥasan al-ʿAṭāwneh, of the Beersheba Tribal Court, January 1940 99
18 Beersheba and its surroundings, Palestine – south sheet, War Office, original scale: 1:168,960, 1917 120
19 The day after the occupation of Beersheba, Arab women addressing an Egyptian soldier incarcerated by the IDF at a temporary detention center, 22 October 1948 130
20 The occupation of Beersheba, IDF soldiers and an Egyptian army vehicle near the Grand Mosque, 21 October 1948 146
21 The occupation of Beersheba, Egyptian prisoners of war are marched near the Grand Mosque, 21 October 1948 146
22 The day after the occupation of Beersheba, Two IDF soldiers and two Arab residents, 22 October 1948 147
23 The day after the occupation of Beersheba, an IDF soldier distributing food to Beersheba’s Arab children at a temporary detention center, 22 October 1948 147
24 Beersheba, air photograph, original scale: 1:10,000, 1946 160
25 Bedouin laborers working in the southern Negev on the construction of the road from Beersheba to Eilat, April 1950 168
26 Abu Middīn at the center, during a visit to Beersheba’s experimental agricultural station, March 1940 182
27 Arab chiefs from surrounding villages sitting inside the Kafr Qasim schoolhouse as IDF officers talk about the new military government, May 1949 182
28 Bedouin riding into Beersheba on Israel’s second Independence Day celebrations, 23 April 1950 183
29 Shoshana, a Jewish girl, and Sheikh Salmān al-Hzayyil (circa 1882–1982), chief of al-Hzayyil tribe, who was married to 39 women during his lifetime, 23 April 1950 183
30 Beersheba, Index to survey of urban area, Survey of Palestine, original scale: 1:10,000, 1930 201
31 Bedouin demonstrating opposite the Prime Minister’s office against Negev Land expropriations for an airfield construction, August 1979 208
32 Bedouin residents walking alongside newly built homes in Tel Sheva (Tall as-Sabaʿ), June 1969 224
33 Prime Minister Shimon Peres speaking with Sheikh Abu Rbēʿah during a traditional meal in the sheikh’s tent, January 1985 224
34 Jewish and Arab horsemen participating in a Bedouin style celebration in the northern Negev, October 1974 225
35 Bedouin selling goats and sheep on a market day in Beersheba, May 1974 225
36 Beersheba, survey of urban area, sheet 125–70. 12. Plans I & II, Survey of Palestine, original scale: 1:1,250, 1930 242
37 Sasson Bar-Zvi (1924–2012) as a watchman in Kibbutz Revivim, 1946 248
38 Looking at a Bedouin tent in Tel al-Milḥ (Tall al-Milḥ) where a ṣulḥ (settlement of a feud) ceremony took place, July 1955 252
39 A Bedouin tent near the new town of Tel Sheva (Tall as-Sabaʿ), 1969 252
40 Permanent houses on the lands of al-Hzayyil tribe, opposite Kibbutz Shoval, north of Beersheba, November 1972 253
41 Bedouin playing traditional musical instruments for their Israeli guests during a gathering in Wadi Feiran in southern Sinai, August 1968 253
42 An aerial view of Beersheba, August 1938 258–259