"الهناجرة".. غجر مصر المنبوذون يعودون للضوء

#### "Gypsies in contemporary Egypt on the margins of society" Alexandra Parrs, in her book Gypsies in Contemporary Egypt On the Peripheries of Society, starts from the claim, for which there is no evidence yet, that the Gypsies left Egypt, and were then dispersed throughout Different from the world, to form groups that live as outcasts by choice on the margins of society here and there. But it quickly considers this claim of European origin, among many Orientalist stories, myths, and stereotypes about those groups, whose original homeland no one knows for certain, assuming that their ancestors once had a national homeland. “The Roma seem to be largely absent from academia and forgotten in public policy,” she says. “Do they only exist in the popular imagination?” The Roma have certainly dispersed - says Alexandra Bars - but in doing so they have constantly contested and negotiated their identities, while maintaining certain relevant characteristics such as their survival on the margins of societies and their attachment to a set of stereotypes and practices that seem to be dominant but constantly changing. Perhaps many Gypsies are nomads, but not all of them. Some [Gypsies] may work in distinct professions, such as street vendors. Some of them strictly adhere to their traditions, such as their dealings with each other, some prohibitions, and the distribution of roles between women and men, but others do not adhere to this. In every region they settled, the Roma absorbed many local customs and redefined their identities within the cultures in which they settled.