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  • noun Plural form of bedouin.

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Examples

  • Which book tells the story about Bailey, who presents himself as an expert on "bedouins" too, and who gets lost in the desert while trying to find his bedouins?

    Saturday, May 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Which book tells the story about Bailey, who presents himself as an expert on "bedouins" too, and who gets lost in the desert while trying to find his bedouins?

    Thursday, May 22, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Perhaps the relation between his tendency to camp out in foreign countries and Libyan bedouin traditions, is an identity meaningful to him that he wants to share, particularly in light of the many bedouins killed in the colonial 1930s and the post colonial environment he grew up in.

    Evening Buzz: Gadhafi Tent Controversy 2009

  • In the northern Sinai area of Sheik Zuweid, several hundred bedouins and police exchanged live gunfire, killing a 17-year-old man.

    Egypt's Opposition Gears Up for More Protests 2011

  • In the northern Sinai area of Sheik Zuweid, several hundred bedouins and police exchanged live gunfire, killing a 17-year-old man.

    Egypt's Opposition Gears Up for More Protests 2011

  • But the most incredible success to date is a version of X Factor in poetry, not even in Arabic but Nabati, the language of the bedouins.

    Letters to MediaGuardian 2011

  • Once upon a time, mansaf was a dish popular among bedouins who grazed their sheep, goats, and camels in the sparsely vegetated valleys and hills of ancient Palestine.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Once upon a time, mansaf was a dish popular among bedouins who grazed their sheep, goats, and camels in the sparsely vegetated valleys and hills of ancient Palestine.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Remember that Palestine was a vast land of few people and no-one, except a few bedouins lived in the Negev

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The Hashemite bedouins, driven out of the Arabian peninsular by Iban Saud, illegally occupied what was designated by the League of Nations to be part of a projected Jewish homeland and called it Transjordan.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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