The container school: A Bedouin village fights for education
April 19, 2022
Published by Al-Araby The clouded sky over the Ain Samiah Valley gives the early morning a cold grey tone, as Tareq Othman walks with heavy steps along the muddy road down to the Bedouin village. Grass has already grown after the first rains of the year, forming a thin green carpet on the surrounding hills, falling in between the tents. Some 32 families live in the community classified as area ‘c’, without public services or infrastructure, and until late November, without a school. “These people arrived here right after 1967 when the Israeli occupation expelled them from the Jordan Valley where they had lived for …
