The braid must never walk before the moustache." Bedouin…

“Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.”

— Anonymous Bedouin

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all…

— Maya Beiser

“The government must rethink its strategy toward the Bedouin, or else those in the area who are armed will turn it into the war…

— John R. Bradley

“Many Englishmen have written about camels. When I open a book and see the familiar disparagement, the well-worn humour, I realize that the author's…

— Wilfred Thesiger

“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or if not…

— Geraldine Brooks

“I want you to stay with me.” “So do I.” “Is that what you said in Arabic?” “It was close,” she said. He waited…

— Robert Masello

I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!

— Reham Khan

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

— T. E. Lawrence

“I thought it was too bad for the Bedouin women, but I didn’t think they would hold us French girls to the same miserable…

— Jim C. Cunningham

“I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which…

— Wilfred Thesiger

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a…

— I. F. Stone

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

— John Quincy Adams