Egypt's Red Sea Mountain Trail creates jobs for local Bedouin community - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Marc Español

Marc Español

Feb 20, 2019

Two Red Sea Mountain Trail guides, members of the Maaza tribe, sit above Wadi Abu Abid, Egypt, in this picture uploaded Feb. 4, 2018. — Facebook/redseamountaintrail

Women lead the way in Sinai hike

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Sinai Trail leads to new tourism experience in Egypt

Marc Español

A Bedouin man runs with his camel as he prepares it to take part in a race in Egypt's South Sinai desert on September 12, 2020, after more than six month of hiatus due to the coronavirus outbreak. - Camel racing is a traditional sport in many Arab countries, most notably in the Gulf region, and in Egypt, bedouins of the South Sinai desert have kept up the tradition. But race events have been suspended since March following the COVID-19 outbreak, and orders only came down at the beginning of the month that t

Bedouins in Egypt retreat to more traditional way of life to face COVID-19

A correspondent in Egypt

A correspondent in Egypt

Umm Yasser (2nd-R), an Egyptian Bedouin female guide from the Hamada tribe, leads a group of hikers in Wadi el-Sahu in the southern Sinai governorate, during the first Sinai Trail led by Bedouin female guides, Egypt, March 29, 2019.

Women-led tourism initiatives are changing the way Egypt is seen, experienced

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