In recent decades, Bedouin society has experienced social and political changes which have greatly influenced its traditional lifestyle, especially the role of women. Despite this, photography dealing with the bedouin community still maintains an orientalist and exoticising gaze which is very far from the current reality. Recognizing these gaps, for my final project I chose to create a kind of photographic internal monologue about the environment in which I was born and raised, Shakic al-Salam; an internal monologue which raises questions about my identity as a Bedouin woman, and Bedouin life today. I decided to focus on trivial aspects of daily life in different spaces where Bedouins live. A traditional Bedouin proverb claiming that “necessity is the mother of all invention” served as my guide for finding meeting points between tradition and modernity. In these spaces I recognized the constraint and coercion,but also the adaptation, acceptance and creativity that are all part of life for today’s Bedouin women. The project combines the fantastical construction of my character as an embodiment of the paradoxes that arise in the encounter between necessity and Bedouin creativity, and documentation of everyday environments.