In a Bedouin community in the Jordan Valley, 16-year-old Firyal lives without reliable access to health or education and her family must bring in water to their hamlet by tractor and cistern. Her ...

Hundreds of years ago, nomadic tribes roamed the Arabian and Syrian deserts. Living in tents and traveling on camels, they were the merchants of the desert — operating trade routes and bartering ...

In the deserts of northwest Jordan, outside a cluster of Bedouin tents, Luma Al Khalaf, 34, is sticking flattened dough onto the sides of the Tanoor, a large hollowed-out clay oven that sits deeply ...

Hamda, an old Jordanian Bedouin woman, was able to start a successful business in a poor town despite being illiterate through a World Bank -financed project Women in the desert region of Jordan with ...

AMMAN, Jordan - Members of Jordan's major Bedouin tribes, normally a bedrock of support for King Abdullah II, added their weight Monday to opposition calls for sweeping reforms to open the country's ...

AL-SHAKRIYEH, Jordan (AP) — A coming-of-age drama set among Bedouin tribesmen roaming the desert emerged as the first potential Oscar contender produced by Jordan's nascent film industry. "Theeb" ...

Deep in the remote deserts of southern Jordan, not far from the border with Saudi Arabia, lies Wadi Rum one of the world’s most stunning natural wonders. Nicknamed the Grand Canyon of the Middle East, ...

Naji Abu Nowar on slotting in amid the likes of 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'The Martian' while shooting his WWI epic in the vast sandstone valley of Wadi Rum. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The film on ...

Jordan’s southern border is a land of sweeping valleys, sandstone hills and imposing mountains crowned by peaks overlooking vast, remote deserts. Not so long ago, much of this region was actually ...

The pandemic has affected people of various occupations across the world. One of them is a Bedouin tour guide in Jordan's ancient ruins of Petra. He has lost his home and is back in a tent. Few places ...

The distribution of transferrin C subtypes was studied in the population of Jordan. The sample comprised 121 Bedouins and 382 other Jordanians from Amman. The frequency of TfC2 was found to be 0.26 ...