The bedouins were nomads.

Bedouins live in the desert.

Bedouins call the camel the Gift of God.

Some Arabs of the desert came with ready excuses, asking for leave to stay behind.

Hamas and the Bedouins in Sinai have most likely been emboldened by the latest developments in Cairo.

But, as Mubarak s regime declined, so did the government s control over the Bedouin.

Wild olive trees are abundant, and large areas of oak savanna provide pasture to the flocks and herds of the local Bedouins.

Tourism and natural gas pipelines linking the two countries provided economic resources for the local Bedouin.

For most of the Ottoman period, Jericho was a small village of farmers susceptible to attacks by Bedouins.

Some of the Arabs of the desert around you are hypocrites, and some of the people of Madina are stubborn in hypocrisy.

Throughout the week, Aboukir Bay was surrounded by bonfires lit by Bedouin tribesmen in celebration of the British victory.

There were four of us two Bedouin drivers and you can just imagine, this expanse is an ocean of sand, 105 degrees, one water bottle.

These major disturbances were probably also punctuated by the customary raids of the nomadic Bedouin raids which would not stop for another hundred years.

Some Bedouins called the city Umm Dhabi (mother of deer), while British records refer to the place as Abu Dhabi.

Some of these rustics take whatever they spend in the way of God as a penalty, and wait for an adverse turn in your fortune.

The village Arabs are more obstinate in disbelief and hypocrisy, and impervious to ordinances revealed to His Apostle by God yet God is aware of everything and is wise.

For them, the lawless Bedouin, the Sinai jihadis, and Hamas and other groups in Gaza threaten Egypt s national security.

Governed by minority Alawites (a Shia sect), Syria harbors a kaleidoscope of distinct groups Arabs, Armenians, Christians, Kurds, Druze, Ismailis, and Bedouin. nbsp

And then there was the language, the rhythmic cadence of it, reminding me of evenings spent listening to Bedouin elders recite hours long narrative poems entirely from memory.

So we got out and walked, and sure enough, about half a mile, we came over the crest of this hill, and there was a huge gathering of Bedouin with their camels.

Yet some Arabs of the desert believe in God and the Last Day, and consider what they spend to be a means of bringing them nearer to God and the blessings of the Prophet.

The fourth actor, the Sinai jihadis, comprises primarily Bedouins, whose distinct origins and long time marginalization have led some to identify with radical Islamist groups (often while working in the Arabian Peninsula).

In response, Egypt s military and security forces launched an offensive against Bedouin militants in Sinai, while Morsi forced the General Intelligence Service s director to retire and dismissed the governor of Northern Sinai.

The Uqair protocol In response to Bedouin raids, the British High Commissioner in Baghdad, Sir Percy Cox, imposed the Uqair Protocol of 1922 which defined the boundaries between Iraq, Kuwait and Nejd.

The invasion of Tunisia by the Banu Hilal, a warlike Arab Bedouin tribe encouraged by the Fatimids of Egypt to seize North Africa, sent the region's urban and economic life into further decline.

It was not worthy of the people of Madina, and the Arabs of the desert around them, to abandon the Prophet of God, and to care more for themselves than for him for there is no hardship or thirst or hunger that they know in the service of God, and no place they walk on where walking provokes the unbelievers, and no harm they receive from the enemy, but is put down as a good deed in their favour. Surely God does not let the recompense of those who do good to go waste.