By Kristen Kao
The Washington Post - May 28
This post is part of the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” symposium.
In the spring of 2013, a fight between two students of different tribes at a university in southern Jordan killed four people and injured many. Tribe members on both sides reportedly supplied the students with weapons and closed the roads surrounding the area for days after the event so that they could personally punish the perpetrators.
Bystanders
complained that state officials’ failure to intervene effectively
escalated the conflict. Order was restored only once a pact was brokered
between the sheiks of the two tribes in a process known as al-atwa.
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