Married to a Bedouin

My partner went to school with the authors son, so when the book came out he made sure to pick it up. Unfortunately he found it hard to get into. However, after I read a few lines of the first chapter I found myself interested in seeing what happened next. This book provided a straight-forward accoun......more

Much, much later, when they couldn't dance or joke any more, a group of Mohammad's friends escorted us back to our cave. They didn't stop singing all the way; their words reverberated around the basin, echoing from the mountain walls that surrounded us. It had been a long wedding and very success......more

I visited Petra in Jordan for the first time this year, and what a place! Sadly, tourism is low, and we were just a few people there that day which for us was amazing as we got chatting to some Bedouins who started to tell us the story of Marguerite, and as it turned out, she had written a memoir. M......more

Marguerite van Geldermalsen was a New Zealander nurse who decided to go travelling with friends in her youth. She visited London and then the Middle East. Her journey stopped in Jordan after a chance visit to Petra where she met Mohammad, a Bedouin souvenir seller with a charming smile and the gift......more

I really enjoyed this book. Unlike Queen Noor's book - this book had a good narrative, and gave me good insight into the world of the Bedouin from a Western woman's perspective. I also enjoyed how she made conscious choices to join in to the culture of her new home, and to abstain when she felt that......more