Bedawi

The Bedawi might be a nominal Sunni, or a nominal Wahabi, or anything else in the Semitic compass, and he would take it very lightly, a little in the manner of the watchmen at Zion’s gate who drank beer and laughed in Zion because they were Zionists.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Back in Qariout, Bedawi says true peace would require settlers to leave.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

Back in Qariout, Bedawi says true peace would require settlers to leave.

Two solitudes 2009

“Go and look after that Bedawi boy, whose grandmother took him away when you were treating him for rheumatic fever.”

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The stalls were gorgeous with lemon-coloured slippers, stiff red shoes, scarlet boots with tops and tassels and hangings, which form part of the Bedawi dress.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Eastward of Aleppo, for sixty miles, were settled Arabs whose colour and manner became more and more tribal as they neared the fringe of cultivation where the semi-nomad ended and the Bedawi began.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Burton had anticipated; consequently as soon as the expedition was well on the road he deprived the Bedawi of his mare and accoutrements, and retained both as hostages until Damascus should be reached again.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

However, as we sought, so we found: hardly a Bedawi lad in camp but unpouched some form of metallic specimens.

The Land of Midian 2003

Twenty miles short of Um el Surab we perceived a single Bedawi, running southward all in a flutter, his grey hair and grey beard flying in the wind, and his shirt (tucked up in his belly-cord) puffing out behind him.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

He, in return, described himself as a Bedawi, and an

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003