Posted on 07/11/2007 3:10:40 PM PDT by blam
intr.v. ul·u·lat·ed, ul·u·lat·ing, ul·u·lates
To howl, wail, or lament loudly.
GGG Ping.
Leaving their herds and taking up suicide belts perhaps?
So that’s what my wife does when I come home............
Somehow, I just don’t find myself getting disturbed by this news. I know, that’s a terrible thing to say. But I will not take it back.
We still have the Nomads living in Los Angeles, only there we call them migrant workers. And the drought in LA is in its 300th year now.
Man, we got to preserve the Bedouin culture at all costs.
Are they more important than the Somali farmers in Darfur?
Must be global warming. Egypt has never had a drought before
It’s about time they assimilated.
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http://wiki.vocamania.com/Bisharin.aspx
The Bisharin are a Sunni Muslim tribe of the Beja nomadic ethnic group in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan; they live in the Atbai between the Nile River and the Red Sea, north of the Amarar and south of the Ababda. Population of about 42,000. “Bisharin” is also the name of their spoken dialect.
The Bisharin tend animals, including camels, sheep, goats, buffalo, and cattle. For those along the Nile River, farming is way of life; they grow cotton, sugar cane, corn, dura, wheat, sesame, fruits and vegetables, and raise poultry.
...He frequently purchased high-quality, fast camels in Diraw for which the Ab bda are famous, as well as direct from Bisharin breeders in the Atbai, and learnt to distinguish their superior qualities. At one time he was allocated £1000 and bought seventy-five camels in two weeks in Dar w through prolonged auctioning and discussion. Dar w, is four miles south of Kom-Ombo and twenty-three miles north of Aswan on the railway, ‘a large village with several mosques, marks the boundary between the Arabic and Nubian language ... Tuesday a large and interesting market to which Bisharin and Ab bda bring hundreds of camels to be sold’. It is the nominal headquarters of the Khalifa family, chieftains of the Amelekab- Ab bda who fought with the British against the Dervishes in Sudan. They also owned the great caravan road from Korosko to Abu Hamed which was so important before the railway was built from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum. As von Dumreicher describes Dar w, it was the only important camel market in southern Egypt, especially visited by Bisharin and Ab bda who exchanged their camels for other goods including corn, beans, dates, linen, leather, daggers, swords, shields etc...
Amalek!
.....To avoid trouble the Ababda and the Besharin offer only their first names to strangers.....
Such is the way of the modern world where many with I have telephone business contact seemingly have only first names.
Bedouin of southeastern Egypt are giving up their traditional lifestyle
There was something there besides sand?
Tjamls. Whoops, right fingers, wrong keys. Thanks.
The article indicates this has more to do with Aswan Dam flooding their “permanent” pastures than the weather.
Yeah, it’s one of those global warming shill pieces. The MSM has bedouin that for a while now.
You see this? This is sand, Nothing grows in it, It’s always gonna be sand. We have deserts in America but we DON’T LIVE IN THEM! BECAUSE NOTHING GROWS THERE!! GET YOUR STUFF AND MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!!!!!!! <—Sam Kinison
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