- The Bedouin are a part of the predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group.
- The Negev Bedouin have one of the highest natural growth rates in the world, 5.5 percent in 2005. This means that the population doubles once every 15 years.
- Bedouins traditionally had strong honor codes, and traditional systems of justice dispensation in Bedouin society typically revolved around such codes. The bisha'a, or ordeal by fire, is a well-known Bedouin practice of lie detection.
- Their foods are predominantely bread, and meat and dairy products from their goat, sheep and camels herds.
- In 2008, 180,000 Bedouin lived in the Negev.
- The Bedouin of the Arabian Desert uses a black tent known as the beit al-sha'r, or 'house of hair'.
- Starting in the late 19th century, many Bedouins under British rule began to transition to a semi-nomadic lifestyle.
- In recent years, the Bedouin have adopted the pastime of raising and breeding white doves.
- A widely quoted Bedouin saying is "Me against my brother, My brothers and I against my cousins, then my cousins and I against strangers".
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