Bedouin women become guides to beat unemployment

Four Bedouin women in Egypt’s Sinai are using their local knowledge to guide female foreign tourists amid job scarcity in the area, the AP reports. “People will make fun of us, but I don’t care. I’m a strong woman,” said Umm Yasser, one of the Bedouin women working with the Sinai Trail, a local initiative to develop Sinai tourism for the benefit of residents.