NUWEIBA, Sinai Peninsula (dpa) – Swilim, a member of the Tarbain nomadic Bedouin tribe, draws on his cigarette thoughtfully and points out to the Red Sea. “Look, there’s Saudi Arabia, there’s Jordan, ...

KAFR EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – With the roads and brick housing blocks of Egypt’s densely populated Nile Delta in the distance, Elsayed Abuhamed and his family have pitched their tents in a field ...

Morning settles over the world's largest sand desert, painting the landscape in golden light. Around the tent, dunes glow ...

Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society's poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Israel's ...

AL-MADAM, United Arab EmiratesAL-MADAM, United Arab Emirates — Nestled in sand dunes an hour’s drive from the skyscrapers of Dubai, a desert village abandoned in the 1990s stands as an eerie relic of ...

Ishmael Khaldi gave a speech about his dual identity as a member of both the traditionally nomadic Bedouin community and as part of a contemporary Israeli society on Monday night. Although not a ...

This desert tourist really walked the walk. Caitlin Redden, from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was visiting Petra, Jordan when she was invited to stay with a nomadic desert tribe for a day — and nearly ...

AL-KHAN AL-AHMAR, West Bank (Reuters) - Bedouin tents and wandering goats dot the barren hills on the drive from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea, giving residents and visitors a glimpse of how the Holy ...

The rescue from Gaza of hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who belongs to the Bedouin community in Israel, has put the focus on a minority group that has largely existed on the margins of Israeli society and ...

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. In southern Israel’s Negev ...