One of the many forms of communication
Words in an Art form....
The Bedouins of Al-Sayyid aren't nomads , they have lived in an obscure corner of Israel
for nearly 200 years.
It is an isolated community where intermarriage is encouraged and for the last 70
years a form of inherited deafness has been passed down from one generation to the next.
Of the 3,500 residents , nearly 150 are deaf.an incidence of 40 times that of the general
population.
An indigenous signed language has sprung up among the deaf villagers, but what is so
incredible about Al-Sayyid is that many hearing villagers can also speak it.
Excerpt from a book by Margalit Fox