But the Sinai region, dominated by Bedouin clans who consider smuggling revenue a birthright, was relatively lawless even under former President Hosni Mubarak's police state.
The country's state apparatus — army, police, teachers, bureaucrats — is dominated by members of Bedouin clans loyal to Abdullah, the Hashemite king.
Among Syria's so-called tribal families — settled Bedouin clans like the one that Zahra belonged to — first-cousin marriage is common.
The country's state apparatus army, police, teachers, bureaucrats is dominated by members of Bedouin clans loyal to Abdullah, the Hashemite king.
They are merchants, from the al-Ajmi clan, a powerful Bedouin tribe.
As the army of Sultan Selim I moved south towards Egypt, the Tarabay clan of the Bani Hareth, a Bedouin tribe from the Hejaz, aided them by serving as guides and scouts.
Meet up with a Bedouin tribe.
A decade later the government established 4 additional towns Segev Shalom, Arara, Laqiya and Hura, each for a different Negev Bedouin sub-clan (Fig. 2).
In the country's geographic heartland is a region known as Najd ("Highland"), a vast arid zone that until recent times was a rich pastiche of warring and feuding Bedouin tribes and clans.
What did these Bedouins of the Zubeidi clan, a backbone of Jordan's monarchy, think about the current instability in light of events in Egypt and Tunisia?
