Residents of the rubhari desert

Bedouins used to raise camels, Arabian horses and sheep to adapt to desert nomadic life; But they also grow dates and other crops, and usually hire others to do agricultural work. Besides rounding up horses and camels, finding aquatic plants is the main business of Bedouins. Nomads also interact with the settled population through religious ceremonies (such as pilgrimage to Mecca), long-distance trade and poetry exchange, and other cultural activities. Bedouin hereditary tribal groups claim that some land is their tribal territory where cattle can eat grass and drink water. With the demarcation of international borders in the desert, the government has increasingly restricted the activities of tribes. The Saudi authorities encouraged Bedouins to settle in oases. 1925 years later, the ruler of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz, stopped the tribal invasion. Tribal loyalty has declined in political importance, but it still makes sense in marriage and other fields. Modernization has brought about many changes, especially for Bedouins who have settled down. Many people move into urban areas, and the number of pure nomads only accounts for a small part of the total population of the desert; Other former nomads settled in or near the village, so they were free to choose a nomadic life for a period of time.

With the discovery of oil in 1936, the influence of western culture accelerated and led to the introduction of modern facilities such as airplanes, telephones and televisions. Trucks are especially important for Bedouins, who use trucks for many purposes, including transporting sheep to markets, transporting feed and water to places where meat animals graze, transporting a small number of livestock from one pastoral area to another, and using them as transportation between urban and rural areas.