Clinton Bailey is a Research Fellow on Bedouin culture 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 A Culture of Desert Survival: Bedouin Proverbs from Sinai and the Negev, published by Yale University Press; and Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture, published by Oxford University Press.