Clinton Bailey is visiting professor of Bedouin culture and Middle Eastern politics at Trinity College, Hartford. He has been an advocate and activist on behalf of Bedouin civil rights in Israel since 1978 and has served as consultant on Bedouin culture to the BBC, the British Museum, and the Museum of Bedouin Culture in Kibbutz Lahav, Israel. He is the author of Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev and many articles on Middle Eastern affairs.