A Documentary directed Toufic Beyhum & Carl Gough. England/Lebanon and South Africa , 2014. 54 min. Arabic – English with English subtitles.

The documentary will be followed by a Q&A session with the director

As part of Documentary Week:

The Bdoul tribe of Petra lived in caves on the heritage site for more than 200 years. Their lives consisted of tending to crops and raising animals. In 1985, the Jordanian Government moved the tribe to purpose-built housing in order to accommodate the ever-increasing numbers of tourists flooding into the area.  Toufic Beyhum and Carl Gough spent 2 months living in the Bdoul village of Umm Sayhoun. They came wielding a camera, in order to document the lives of the tribe and to witness first-hand how the people have been influenced by tourism, and the capitalist society this has engendered. It’s a far cry from the lives of their parents, a mere 25 years ago.