{{Short description|American-Israeli political scientist (1936–2025)}} thumb|Clinton Bailey, 1971 '''Clinton Bailey''' ({{Langx|he|קלינטון ביילי}}; April 24, 1936 – January 5, 2025) was an American-Israeli political scientist. He was an expert on Bedouin culture and poetry,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/world/middleeast/clinton-bailey-dead.html|title=Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88|first=Isabel|last=Kershner|date=January 22, 2025|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> and a founder of the Museum of Bedouin Culture in the Negev.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000 |title=Clinton Bailey |url=https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/?next_url=/ezproxy/r/ezp.2aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2guZWJzY29ob3N0LmNvbS9sb2dpbi5hc3B4P2RpcmVjdD10cnVlJmRiPWxraCZBTj00OTQxNjU3NyZsYW5nPWVuLWdiJnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ-- |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Baker & Taylor Author Biographies |language=en}}</ref> He lived with the Bedouin people of the region from 1967 to 2012, and published the book ''Bedouin Culture in the Bible'' with Yale University Press in 2018.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schaper |first=Joachim |date=2019 |title=Review of Bedouin Culture in the Bible |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26741998 |journal=Vetus Testamentum |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=508–509 |doi=10.1163/15685330-12341381-03 |jstor=26741998 |issn=0042-4935}}</ref> Bailey died on January 5, 2025, at the age of 88.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 6, 2025 |title=Remembering Clinton Bailey, Ben-Gurion interviewer and Bedouin expert |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-836257 |website=The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com}}</ref>
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