Bedouins are nomad people who lived mostly in the desert regions. Most of them don’t have any documents. Many Bedouins are unlettered – can’t read or write. There isn’t precisely information about the number of Bedouins. From ancient times this people don’t let somebody to rule them. They have their own society with lows, ruler, tradition and believe. Bedouins pass on from generation to generation the secrets of desert and the ways to live in this inhospitable area hole live. From ancient times the Bedouins are the best guides through the deserts sands. They are also and good warriors. Every country where live Bedouins are trying to force them to lead settled life. Of course the modern world influences over their lives and only the Bedouins on the deep desert keep the old way of life.
In the last few years more and more tourists visit a desert area which leads to more and more hotels. Because of this the Bedouins are forced to leave their villages and to go deeper in the desert where the survival is very difficult. Unemployment among the Bedouins is very high but they are not allowed to go to school and this deprived them of the opportunity to find job or to start own business. Hundreds of hotels offered many work places but most of time for them are hired Egyptians. Some of the young Bedouins are attract from the easiest life of the people in the big cities as Cairo and they moved there. This trend could provoke declining disappearing of the Bedouins.
Some of the Bedouins on South Sinai have been made themselves in a tourist attraction. Almost every touristic agency can offer you the diner in the Bedouin village. In this way Bedouins are trying to earn some money because the live on the desert become more and more difficult. The Bedouins children who are allowed to go to school can’t be educated in the old Bedouin traditions. If this happen, the parents are called in the school. This is a shame practice because in this way soon or later the Bedouins will disappear.
The Bedouins comes from different areas and speak different languages like Beja and Bedawai, so we can’t talk for them like one community. Each tribe has its own originality. When the Bedouins go through the desert they use for landmark the stars, stones and other marks which showed the right way. They carry only little food, water and weapon and know how to find water in the desert. The Bedouins are dressed with clothes with protect them from the sun but also allowed to the wind to cool their bodies. The women are dressed in black, with covered faces. They live usually in a tent made from camel –hairs. Usually the tent has two “rooms” – one for the guests and other only for the women.
Bedouins are inseparably part of the Egypt culture and it will be really a pity if the modern world becomes a reason for their disappearing. Regardless of this, Bedouins say that they are real Egyptians.
