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  • Further, the Palestinians have an attachment to their patch which is land that happens to be in Palestine and not Jordan - the Jordanians are basically bedu, culturally very different from the agriculturally rooted Palestinians.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Off-road driving by local bedu, visitors, and seismic operators exerts a damaging effect on vegetation, both in the sanctuary and the surrounding area, although no studies have yet been conducted to examine the damage.

    Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert 2008

  • This bedu tribe of around 500 people speaks a language that belongs to a pre-Islamic south Arabian group and may have lived on the Jidda 'for many centuries.

    Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman 2008

  • Development of the oil industry has totally changed the economy of Oman, including the lives of the bedu.

    Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman 2008

  • Red foxes now outnumber Ruppell's foxes, eating food discarded by the increasing numbers of bedu camps.

    Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman 2008

  • It was also a fair assumption that there would be pockets of local population all along the MSR, either in fixed abodes or as bedu on the move, and plantations scattered all along the area to take advantage of the availability of transportation and water.

    Bravo-Two-Zero McNab, Andy 1993

  • But, in the end, it turned out that environmental degradation, geography, culture, religion, bedu history, tribal allegiances, the spread of little bin Ladens all had little to do with the ticking time bomb that was muffled by the sound of cranes.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • In Canada one was expected to ask permission before photographing 'natives'; India appears to have required a special permit to photograph anybody 'bathing'; Jamaica advised against attempting to photograph 'market vendors'; Jordan preferred that no pictures were taken of bedu or of 'backward' subjects;

    Libertarian Blog Place 2008

  • Nzingha bedu - not a coincidence there are nasty little bugs that many pick up while in mekkah. it reaches to our relatives in Jeddah as well.

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • And several news agencies pick up many bedu-posts.

    WordPress.com News 2008

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