Banu Hilal
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The Banu Hilal is an Arab tribe from the Najd region of the central Arabian Peninsula. A portion of emigrated to the Maghreb region of North Africa in the 11th century. They ruled the Najd and campaig
A rare Arabic manuscript of the orally-transmitted epic poem about the Banu Hilal, by Hussein Al-Ulaimi, 1849 CE, origin unknown
Bedouin
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The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu are pastorally semi-nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin
Banu Hilal
…in the borderlands between Iraq and Syria. When the Fatimid Caliphate became the rulers of Egypt and the founders of Cairo in 969, they confined the Bedouin in the south before sending them to Central North Africa (Libya, Tunisia and Algeria) and then to Morocco. Historians estimate the total number of Arab…
Three Bedouin sheikhs, c. 1867–1876
Bedouins in the Sinai Region, 1967
A Bedouin girl in Nuweiba, Egypt (2015)
A Bedouin warrior, pictured between 1898 and 1914