Banu Saqr
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The Banu Saqr or Al Sqour is a Bedouin tribe formerly concentrated in the Beisan Valley of Palestine from c. 1700 until the 1948 Palestine war and now resident in modern Jordan. Throughout the 18th ce
The Beisan Valley, 2010
Bedouin shepherd grazing his flock at the Ain Jalud spring of the Wadi al-Jalud (Harod Valley), the upper limit of the Saqr's tribal area, 1950
A Bedouin sheikh of the Beisan valley meeting with a Jewish member of the kibbutz Maoz Haim
Bedouins and their camel-hair tents in the Galilee, 1890–1900
Daher al-Umar
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Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani, alternatively spelled Zahir al-Umar or Dahir al-Umar, was the paramount sheikh of the Zayadina family and ruler of northern Palestine from the 1730s until his death in 1775,
Banu Saqr
…were the strongest of the Bedouin tribes of northern Palestine and were in frequent conflict with the strongmen of the region, first the tax farmer Daher al-Umar (1730–1775) and then the governor Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (1775–1804). Their conflict stemmed from these leaders' efforts to stem the tribe's raiding of…
Modern, artistic representation of Daher
Daher's purported home in Arraba
Ruins of the fortress of Jiddin, in the northwestern Galilee
Drawing of Nazareth, 1839