Sentence examples for bedouin from inspiring English sources

To a credulous public, his experience conjured a romantic world of proud and ruthless Bedouin horsemen silhouetted against a burning sky; of Saladin, scimitars, keffiyehs, and desert hawks.

Images of the monarch as the repository of the tribal bedouin heritage flourished as Saudi Arabia drifted into globalisation and a consumer culture.

Though once-menacing Somali pirates have been stopped by Western navies, there may be a new threat emerging from Islamist militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, home to a disaffected Bedouin population just east of the Suez Canal.Egypt's security forces have struggled to deal with the militants, who stepped up their attacks after the coup against Muhammad Morsi, the former president, in 2013.

In one memorable scene his Bedouin warriors, armed only with old rifles, hobble their own feet to ensure martyrdom as Mussolini's tanks roll inexorably towards them.Such imagery, mixed with big doses of schoolbook nationalism and more recent real-life pictures of stone-throwing children facing Israeli guns, has bolstered a common Arab perception of "resistance" as an act that is just and noble.

In a previous stint as prime minister, he placated his Bedouin troops by raising their salaries.

The police are still hunting for others in the mountains.Locals say the bedouin would know the paths through the Sinai peninsula's twisting ridges and wadis, routes that would be taken if a lot of explosives were to be slipped past the many checkpoints on bigger roads.

Critics responded furiously, saying the new body includes few women, non-Muslims or minorities such as Nubians from the south or desert Bedouin.

HUNKERED inside his fortified compound, North Sinai's governor, Abdel Wahhab al-Mabrouk, a military man, plans his counter-attack against the peninsula's rebellious Bedouin.

For years Egyptian bureaucrats from the Nile Valley have refused to let the Bedouin register their land.

Wooing the middle Free but dangerous Economic jihad The brrrm of dissent ReprintsMost Bedouin leaders now prefer to rely on their own people to keep order.

The governor toys with the idea of a heavier crackdown, but it is plain that only a political agreement has a chance of restoring calm and preventing the pesky Bedouin from soliciting outside support, which would make Sinai even more dangerous.