Panorama of Beit She'an and the surroundings
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
Beit She'an Valley
…Valley formed part of the Bedouin Turabay emirate (1517-1683). During the 18th century, the dominant local power in the valley were the Bedouins of the Banu Saqr tribe. Although weakened by their conflicts with the Acre-based strongmen Daher al-Umar and Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar and their successors, this tribe…
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