Bedouin Women in the Sinai Desert

Most Bedouin women continue to wear the traditional black dress. The dresses are embroidered with brightly colored thread--red for married women and blue for unmarried. The Bedouins of the Sinai (and most of Asia) cling to their nomadic past, but are being pushed by the government to settle in government-built housing. One of our guides told us that while many of the Bedouins preferred their tents made from goat and sheep's hair to the houses, many were moving into the houses because of the possibility of owning a satellite dish!