Bedouin Research Paper

The Bedouin are an ancient Arab people. They live mainly in the Arabian and Syrian deserts, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and the Sahara Desert of north Africa. there are Bedouin communities in many countries including Egypt, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Libya In North Africa. The population of Bedouin people is about 4 million. The Bedouin share their religion and culture with many different people. Many people like people of middle east and north Africa and they speak Islamic language and practice Islamic region. The word Bedouin means a desert dweller. Which means most of the people lives in desert. Bedouins have different facial features by which they can be distinguished from other Egyptians and also, they generally

Scientists have found fossils of prehistoric sea creature in the rocks. Over millions of years the sea dried up the fossil of sea creature remained preserved under layers of rocks and sand. After the sea dried up and forests and fertile grass land covered the land but then the climate changed it started to rain less and less. The rivers slowly dried up, and the forests and grasslands became deserts. River valleys turned into dry canyons called wadis. The desert is almost remained dry throughout the year and rain finally fall in the spring after that heavy storms that flood the wadis with rushing water. Because of flood soil erosion takes place and it make travel even harder and dangerous because of rock. In winter and spring, dry winds blow from the south in the desert, creating swirling sandstorm. The sandstorms blow for about fifty days, so the stormy seasons is called Khamseen, or fifty. The wind has different names such as samum and harmattan, depending on which way they blow. They blow as fast as 90 miles an hour and can uproot tents and even knock down

The Arabian and Sahara Desert receive only a few inches of rain a year. Bedouin life revolves around searching for water for the family and animal to drink. Crying a water from the river or well take a lot of time and because of lake of technology they find very hardship to transport water. The Bedouin women usually wear brightly colored long dresses but when they go outside they dress in an 'abaya' and they will always cover their head and hair when they leave their house with a 'Tarah'. Traditionally a woman's face was hidden behind a highly decorated 'burqas’' but this is now only seen with the older generations. The younger generations cover their face simply with their 'Tarah'. Women are protected in the Bedouin code of honor. A man who is not closely related to a woman is not allowed to touch her in any way, not even so much as to brush his fingers against hers while handing her something. To do so is to dishonor her. Likewise, in some tribes, if a woman brings dishonor to herself, she shames her family because honor is held not by individuals but by the whole family. Bedouin people prefer to deal in cash only. All transactions are done on the spot and in cash. Cash is real: you can touch it, smell it, feel it and mess around with it. However, in a modern society a government needs to collect taxes and this is difficult to do when deals are made in cash only. People of Bedouin