{"id":16271,"date":"2025-07-21T11:53:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16271"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:10:08","slug":"bedouins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bedouins\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are Bedouins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bedouins Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 300 people have been killed in a week of violent clashes between Syria&#8217;s Druze minority and Sunni Bedouin tribes in and around the southern city of Sweida.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bedouins<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bedouins are traditionally <\/span><b>nomadic, Arabic-speaking tribes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have inhabited the deserts of the <\/span><b>Middle East and North Africa for centuries.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word Bedouin derives from the <\/span><b>Arabic badawi, meaning &#8220;desert dweller&#8221;.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These communities historically survived by <\/span><b>herding livestock, primarily camels, sheep<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and goats, while navigating seasonal migrations across vast arid landscapes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These tribes have traditionally been classified according to the animal species that are the basis of their livelihood.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Syria, Bedouins have primarily lived in the <\/span><b>expansive Al-Badia desert<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which covers much of the country&#8217;s south and east, including provinces like Sweida, Homs, and Deir ez-Zor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Society:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bedouin society is <\/span><b>tribal and patriarchal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, typically composed of extended families that are patrilineal, endogamous, and polygynous.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure, is <\/span><b>called sheikh; the sheikh is<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/explained-who-are-bedouins-and-why-they-are-fighting-the-druze-in-syria-8909992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>NDTV<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bedouins are a nomadic Muslim Arab people who live mainly in the Negev desert of southern Israel. 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