Fields Of Gold
Our drive from Madaba to Shoubak included beautiful yellow fields of wheat and barley.
Changing Landscape
The landscape started to change from vast golden fields to twisting valleys between the rise and fall of hilly terrain.
Outcasts
Our driver Walid pointed out this Gypsy Camp. He explained that the people who populate it are also referred to as Dom or Bani Murra or Nawar (unclean), and considered outcasts by the Jordanian people.
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From minorityreports.com:
The Bani Murra (also known as Dom) are an Indo-Aryan, formerly nomadic people who number around 70,000 in Jordan. In addition, there are several hundred Syrian Dom living in the country as refugees, spread between pockets in northern Jordan and the Azraq refugee camp. Like Europe’s Roma, Dom are a persecuted minority who face widespread prejudice and hostility across the region. Due to popular stereotypes associating them with witchcraft, fortune-telling and criminality, they are often referred to as ‘nawar’ or ‘tramps’ – a slur that Bani Murra have also adopted themselves. Historically, Dom communities have always been marginalized from wider society, with limited access to education and higher levels of unemployment. Jobs that Bani Murra migrant workers used to take before the war and that guaranteed a decent living back in Syria, like picking vegetables and fruit in the Jordan Valley, are now of little help.