Bedouins Today

Bedouins traditionally were known for their hospitality, tribal life and their set of habits and customs. Nowadays, and though time has changed and has changed a lot of bedouins with it, Bedouin families are still trying to keep some of their customs and ways. For example, bedouin families still try to live near each other, to be there for each other no matter what and this is something felt in the bedouin communities. In West Bekaa, Families from the same tribe "Abou Eid" are scattered all over. there's the "Askar" family in Dakwi and some of the "Sultan" Family in Jeb Jennine... And both have different ways of lives (One is more open and involved in its surrounding then the other, one is more attached to its roots then the other...) but still share few of their old ways of living (for example the design of their homes and living rooms, raising cattle, making a "mansaf" for strangers to eat, trying to be as hopsitable as they can be and their costumes).