Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 56)

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Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 56)

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drawn from all the Bani Zaid villages.
During the reign of the Egyptian leader Ibrahim Pasha (1832 - 1840),
the chief sheikh of Deir-Ghassaneh, sheikh Abdul Jaber, was put to
death by Ibrahim Pasha, (Abu Zuheir, interview: 1985). Musa Ahmad
Sehweil from Abwein and Ali er-Rabbah of Kubar succeeded him. In the
later days of Musa, sheikh Saleh, the son of the late sheikh Abdul
Jaber, struggled to regain his father's position, and the sheikhdom
was divided into two domains: the eastern Bani Zaid sheikhdom which
included seven villages with 'Abwein as its chief town, and the
Sehwails as the chief ruling family; and the western Bani Zaid
sheikhdom which included 12 villages with Deir Ghassaneh as its chief
village, (Macalister, 1906: 354). The two areas were geographically
divided by a wadi.
Fig. 2.2: game indicates Barghouthi villaaes
ewe fallaheen (non-Barghouthi) villages
As figure 2.2 illustrates, the Bani Zaid villages were divided into
Barghouthi villages, where the Barghouthi clans constituted the
powerful and most influential section of the village population, and
"fallaheen" ("peasant") villages. Fallaheen villages were those in
which members of the Barghouthi clan--associated with the dominant
feudal group-- did not reside. In this context, fallaheen refers to
non-Barghouthis, though the Barghouthi clans were themselves peasants
in the wider sense (i.e., being village dwellers who depended on
agriculture). Yet the power and wealth of their dominant sub-clan
set the whole lineage group apart from other clans. Here the term
fallaheen carried negative connotations. It referred to people who
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