No Longer Achmed

Achmed Hamdoon a young Arab Bedouin of the Hamdoon tribe was raised in the family tin hut a few meters away from the locked gate of Kibbutz Lotem in West Galilee Northern Israel Having longed for the kibbutz life most of his youth he finally pulls out and moves to Lotem changing his name to the typically Israeli name Meidan Sade The clan is outraged and sees him as a traitor But Meidan no longer Achmed feels he cannot access better opportunities in the Israeli society as a Bedouin Indeed he becomes the first Hamdoon to carry ammunition while guarding the Kibbutz completes his high school