Bedtime reading

Anyone interested in objective (vs. romanticized) knowledge of Bedouins in the 20th century needs to read this book.  The author, Jibrail Jabbur, a Syrian, was born at the turn of the twntieth century in a town on the fringes of the desert, near Palmyra; he studied in Princeton, NJ, and went on to become a Professor of Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut (my alma mater).