Milestone: Clinton Bailey (1936–2025)

Ethnographer Clinton Bailey devoted his life to the Bedouin of the Negev and Sinai. Throughout his career, he documented their lives and advocated for their futures. But for readers of BAR, just as significant was the attention he paid to the past. Born Irwin Glaser in Buffalo, New York, Bailey made his way to Israel in the late 1950s. He completed his undergraduate work in Jerusalem and then returned to New York to do a Ph.D. in Middle East studies at Columbia University. In the late 1960s, he moved back to Israel, where he became fascinated by the Negev’s Bedouin. […]