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<p>This paper examines an alternative, sensory source of historical knowledge held by the Bedouin Tawarah tribe in South Sinai. Such inherited knowledge of the land can be a way of decolonizing history beyond state archives, which many scholars still rely on as a higher form of historical evidence. This paper posits a mode of sensory, embodied, and communal knowledge that has the capacity to open alternative discourses of past and future. It benefits from a turn in geology and anthropology that centers indigenous knowledge of earth science, as opposed to archival science informed by the epistemological development of geological sciences in the nineteenth century. Through the exploration of Bedouin modes of “tasting” and “walking with,” it is possible to see the desert as an archive that has the potential to open new possibilities, to unearth stories of buried histories, and to unlock traces and possibilities for the future.</p>

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Sinai paths and quarantine: buried paths as alternative sources of historical narrative

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    2025年12月5日

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  • Alaa Attiah Mitwaly

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This paper examines an alternative, sensory source of historical knowledge held by the Bedouin Tawarah tribe in South Sinai. Such inherited knowledge of the land can be a way of decolonizing history beyond state archives, which many scholars still rely on as a higher form of historical evidence. This paper posits a mode of sensory, embodied, and communal knowledge that has the capacity to open alternative discourses of past and future. It benefits from a turn in geology and anthropology that centers indigenous knowledge of earth science, as opposed to archival science informed by the epistemological development of geological sciences in the nineteenth century. Through the exploration of Bedouin modes of “tasting” and “walking with,” it is possible to see the desert as an archive that has the potential to open new possibilities, to unearth stories of buried histories, and to unlock traces and possibilities for the future.