Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Storyline: Arabia in 1916, a small group of Bedouin nomads, including the young boy Theeb and his brother Hussein, are visited by a British ...

By Isabel Kershner Reporting from Jerusalem Clinton Bailey, an American-Israeli academic whose research and documentation of the ancient traditions of the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Middle East ...

led by Liyam (Ibrahim Al-Hasawi), a patriarch carrying on a Bedouin tradition by living at a remove from civilization. While the nomadic clan has picked up and moved at their leisure in the past ...

But modernization, urbanization, and industrialization have rapidly changed Bedouin society, Rogel said. “They have gone from being nomads to settlers,” he said. “So, here in this project ...