The Bedouin of Petra | Al Jazeera World
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- Archaeologists say that the ancient city of Petra dates back to the third century BC. The famous site in the south of Jordan, which was once occupied by the Romans, is today one of the most visited tourist destinations in the world.
Al B'doul, a Bedouin tribe that used to live in Petra, claim to be descended from the Nabataeans who occupied this land at the end of the Roman Empire. They lived among the tombs and caves for over 170 years.
But after Petra became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the mid-1980s, many B'doul were forced to abandon their semi-nomadic life for the nearby, purpose-built settlement of Umm Sayhoun, where they still live today.
The B'doul go to Petra every day to act as tour guides and provide local colour - from music and entertainment to camel and donkey rides. They feel a strong attachment to the site, and some still cling to Bedouin life in the ancient valley.
In this Al Jazeera Documentary film shot in Petra, we explore the history, traditions and daily lives of the B'doul, particularly the challenges they face as Bedouins in a tourism centre in present-day Jordan.
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johny depp look alike is awesome!
I miss Petra, what a wonderful experience. Simple people are pure at heart.
At the end of the documentary i ve felt so much respect for these outstanding people ... I loved their mind that saves their culture, their being that make them who they are ...
Petra and the people what a dream come true. I admire the solitude and freedom of these wonderful people. They remind me of my uncle who lives in The mountains of West Virginia. He has a home in the holler of the mountain but he refuses to live in the house and lives in the cave up in the mountain. The ideals of these people reminded me of my Cherokee Indian/Scott Irish relatives in the mountains of West Virginia. They love it there and have no desire to live in a city. My heart and spirit understand their way of life and the way of life of the Bedouin. I had a friend who played the oud. When he played I played I accompanied him by playing the zills which are small finger cymbals. I hope someday to visit the beautiful city of Petra and meet the beautiful Bedouin people.
Aidah Di Leoni
Hope you visit Jordan soon :)
You have a beautiful ancient Arabic name by the way.
Aidah Di Leoni Welcome to Jordan anytime
@@yousef.al-assaf Those beautiful buildings carved into the rock cliffs are those temples? All those holes dug out in the cliffs of Petra were they homes or tombs?
@@yousef.al-assaf This is why I don't like UNESCO. UNESCO is part of the United Nations. When they purchase a historical site, that site no longer belongs to the native people or country. In the beginning of this video, it says in the 1980's UNESCO kicked out the Bedouin people living in Petra. 18: 55 the Bedouin talk about how they were forcefully relocated out of Petra to an urban development near by under the cloak of darkness. Force-ably moved by the government. People need to look up Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is a United Nations Treaty that President Clinton signed with world leaders of the United Nations. The blueprint is very sinister. The objective is to create bio-spheres of habitat, and return all the plants and wild animal species to their natural environment. There's one problem, this treaty isn't human friendly. The treaty discusses population control. The objective is to move humans out of rural areas into urban core areas. Rio da Janero is another Agenda 21 planned city of sustainable Development which involves stack and pack housing to cram humans into small living spaces. The idea is this will prevent global warming. It's actually a communistic concept.
As a Jordanian, we love country folk from rural USA. We love tradition and hospitality
البدو عرب كيف انباط حنا من نسل اسماعيل تستهبل ويش التخلف ذا الناس ذي مو بدويه ولا تعرف تاريخ العرب البدو
The people of Petra seems to be very friendly, simple & contented in life. it also made me smile when i saw that girl's smile at the end of the video :)
Same here.A MILLION DOLLAR SMILE.
proud to be a bedouin
lovely ppl in the world
it is the birth place of prophet mohammad and the quraish tribe (Bani Hashim) where are they now? lol this bedouins are not qureish ppl...they fought against the quraish and destroyed their city to dust...and now they are claiming this city to be their ancient city...Becca will always be the land of Quraish...
Wow great
son of makkah much love to you too ! Fellow Bedouin from my dad’s side
Do nomadic people use Internet? wow.
🙏 God Bless you and keep you. God bless the Bedouin people. Real people. No plastic, modern lives. Beautiful. Appreciation and love from the US. Peace.
13:02 LMAO "Taxi?..... Ferrari?" and he smiles.
I think he laughed because she ignored him and slipped. He didn't say 'she's lovely' as it was translated. He said 'mashallah' which is a term we use meaning 'if Allah wills'. He said it in a sarcastic manner so i think he was just giggling at the fact that she ignored him and almost fell.
Tara Bee I though "inshallah" meant if Allah wills! ;)
David R. You are right, that is the meaning of Inshallah. Mashallah means more or less the same thing but in Arabic we mostly use Mashallah to praise whatever it is we're talking about, or if you have a middle eastern parent and you've asked them to get you a Ferrari for your birthday and they say 'Inshallah' then don't hold your breath ;P but the guy in the video was for sure being sarcastic, it's the way he said it and giggled :)
and what's so bad about it? he just smiled polietly i didin't saw anything bad
This makes me think of life on Mars, with all the reddish rocks and soil. One day, in the future...
If a tourist sees your TV and decides that your tribe's lifestyle is no longer traditional they should go find a rock to kick. Tribal lifestyles are centered around how you provide your most basic needs, not your luxuries.
It is a beautiful place to live in, and of course extremely peaceful. I believe these people are blessed. The women have a lot of work, and it is hard, but they seem to be healthier than the one in the cities. There is so much corruption in the world. I cannot judge by appearances, but it most be wonderful to just live with faith in the Almighty to provide for every day like the ancients lived their lives. There have always been empires who come to intervene in the lives of the peaceful people, and rob them of their faith and way of life, but most of those empires have not succeeded, they are all gone bringing their own destruction and the destruction of the world because of their greed. May the Almighty have mercy on the world.
'I use poetry to flirt with women' LMAO
+PotatoIssa ??
Stop PaliNazi occupation of the Land of Israel a.k.a. Palestine.
Give it back to its Jewish owners (even the Qur'an acknowledges this).
Free Yerushalayim and Har haBayit.
ZviJ1 Why are you posting this under my comment? My comment was about the funny guy in the video, its not about politics...
ZviJ1 chas v'shalom
This guy is a trip. You know he can get those hotties with his beautiful kohl lined eyes and sweet singing.
taxi ferrari while he's sitting on donkey hahaha funny, love from pakistan
Subhan Arshad much love my friend !
Air conditioned Donkey hahaha. I love this mans sense of humour, and you people are so amazing !
Arabs are the funniest people im a proud arab
And using poor donkeys ..
33:12 "no no thank you, i prefer to walk"...."I prefer to work" lol
Taxi? Ferrari? Air conditioned donkey 😅🤣
I like the handsome dude who looks like Johnny depp 😚
He surely would like to see your comment and your profile picture!🤩
These is the true essence of middle east!
I really enjoyed this, such a beautiful place.
this is one of my all time favourite Al jazeera documentaries
Sad that they have lost so much knowledge of their own history. The Nabataeans were indeed a literature culture, who wrote in Aramaic, and printed their own coins with inscriptions. Their supreme deity was Dushara, but many converted to Christianity.
I have been there and love Bedouin and all Jordanian people.I'd go back again definitely.
that sounds very nice i'd might visit Jordan in the futre
you are welcome
the ancient Arabs formed as an ethnic group in the northwestern part of Saudi Arabia and Jordan and the Syrian desert
Their very dark-skinned people. 12:56 Possibly how Yeshua and Children of Yisrael have looked.
Dev'n That’s because of the long hours they spend in the sun. If you see their women, they are very much lighter because they wear the veil when working outside.
C sons of Israel aren’t ishmaelite or Arab wtf bro??! And Ismail a.s. wasn’t even arab genetically he was “Arabized” because he grew up with Arabs and married an Arab. That’s why his descendants are called “Arabized” Arabs or العرب المستعربة
@@qamar900 there's nothing as Arab genetically Arabs were made of different tribes with different origines but all of them were ethnicitically and racially semetis and middle easternere, qahtan and adnan story is a myth
Thank you for making this fantastic documentary. Loved it from beginning to end. Can't wait to visit Petra and meet the Bedouin people.
Good to see people attempting to preserve their culture.
....For tourists.
@@phyll9599
No, many actually live this life.
It is so amazing that life is so spartan and the people are happy and stress free. For tourists, the first impression of this place is pathetic. Now I understand he price one has to pay in modern, convenient city life; stress, pollutions of air and medias and a good sleep.
This was really beautiful documentary. I love the fact how they hold on to their culture and faith. And loyal too.
the smile of the little girl at the end is so cute :)))....I am Petra,..hoping to visit someday
I fell in love with these people watching this. Pls stay as you are DO NOT BE modernised - you are beautiful people with amazing culture. Sending all my love & respect from United Kingdom
+ks babyg
thank u
u r very kind and nice u r welcome in any time:)
+Nana Syrian Instead of being caught up in your feelings, do the research work on the amalgamation of the ORIGINAL BLACK ARABS. I gave some starting points in my previous comments which are ACTUAL FACTS. Try to debunk them without your feelings getting involved. NO MORE WHITING OUT THE TRUTH!!! SHALAWAM
israieli isis version
ks babyg what are you talking about please give me a break
Haya Mousa what's wrong with what she said. Loving people is never a bad thing. Why are u against her opinion
The best documentary ever on petra
I am a Bedouin😏💪✌
What is the name of man dress at @1:49
Much love !!!
@@muhammadsyafiqabdulghani8368
Farwa (فروة)
or abaya (عباية)
Chad
4:48 Petra is a beautiful place! The only thing I didnt like was they would give you a price to ride a horse, donkey, or camel and then when the ride was over, they would tell you it was more than what they originally quoted! 🙄😐
Been to Dubai many times but I never visit any other Arab countries, I always want to see Jordan 🇯🇴 and Kuwait 🇰🇼 and Oman 🇴🇲
Also Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco the Arab world is big and beautiful with many different cultures.
The land is from God for all people. Don't count on government to solve your problems!
Good documentary, I have read about Petra in Holy Quraan, Now closely watched at video, Bedouin are tough and having solitary soul,
I am so glad to have come across this video. When I visited Petra many many years ago before there were tourists, I glimpsed some of these lovely people walking along small pathways or over rocks, but never had the chance to see more of them. They seemed rather shy and withdrawn, and I respected their obvious desire to be left alone. so it is wonderful to learn more about them in this video. I have learned a little about the Nabateans since my visit, but they are mostly a mystery to us. I wish now that I had gone back to Petra, to Jordan actually, as I find the Jordanians a beautiful people with genuine, warm smiles and big hearts.
Nabateans are arabs
My family root is Bedouin, but this is my first time to hear about people living in caves
very cool, doing some research, care to help?
Mona Lisa Moru glad to help but it is depend what is Purpose for?
They dont have any thing to be ashamed of america has so many homeless people we dont even have caves for them to live in 😣
but those are not homless
they decide to live like that
its there choice
every jordanian lived like that before 90 year
but we developed and they didnt want to
@@nashmi-8609 they don't look poor. They have a massive nature reserve to themselves.
THEY ARE HOMELESS BEC. ITS THEIR CHOICE. THEY FEEL FREE!!! ITS THEIR BASIC RIGHT TO LIVE THEY WANT TO LIVE!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!! SO SHUT UP!!!
Yea we should
beautiful documentary...
these guys are the red indians of the arab world
Zorro Studios nope not really, more like cowboys.
what is red indians this is the dominant color of ethnic arab its brown
these bedouins are black which proves ancient arabs would have been black and lightened up with time
truth 90 there brown not black
abcde fghij hahaha dumb boy using ethiopia for that !
Adam Mahmood i can clearly see a black man in them have you seen the kids they look many mixed childrens
Adam Mahmood im sure they was darker
jose wannabe these guys are the true levantines; so if anything the semites of middle east and moses, and jesus would have resembled those people rather than the light levantines; the light levantines lightened because of heavy european admixture, the true middle easterner Semites in general are dark and they resemble gulf arabs or these bedouins in the video
People of Petra, you have so much to share with the Western World.
taxi lol Ferrari at speed of 5km an hour
it's bedouin cultre there's no taxi there
As-salamu alaykum!! Great people, very simple life, and a very beautiful landscape!
العرب تاج راسك هاذا انا امزح مع كل عربي ويضحك من وين جبت يعصب .؟؟
OMG. I miss my country Somalia. They play oud, and so do we. Life in the west is miserable!!!
All people are cruel. Especially tourists.
اللهم احفظ آهل الاردن الكرام تحية حارة من اخوكم السوداني 🇸🇩❤️🇯🇴
May Allah ta ala save this place for all of you and give you peace and bless you, amin 🤲 I' feel the same, I' m sick from all the to much noise in the City and the bad air in Berlin in Germany 🧕🕌🕋 I will pray for you, that Allah save you and your family 💚
Those are African not bedouin WTF!!!
The Bedouin for real...Wow!!!
Those kids sure are well behaved.
Y
1what a cute smile from the lil girl,love it.
these people have great insight and you have to fully respect there cultural pride for keeping it intact despite the pressures...
btw issa abdul is funny guy great sense of humor
Yes like Queen Noor said Stay there ✋😌Keep your culture. Beautiful place to visit
jose wannabe why. That's so racist. This comment is dirtier than anything they have done. These people are great and I've met them all across Jordan. Soooooo innocent. They don't want to develope. They just want to live in their desert and not bother anyone or be bothered
@@user-id8cl5zd9e what did he say?
when your customized character appears on a cut-scene 23:13 (the guy on the right)
Johnny depp!!!haha that was funny
Johnny Depp LOL ?
The Nabateans are the Arameans who are the Chaldeans who are just the Akkadians and Amorites(imliq) who mixed with the Arami tribes Ad and Thamud. The Adites conquered Iraq and Syria , mixing with them when actual tribe of Ad perished , Prophet Hud PBH was with the Thamud who are from him , they lived from Al Hijr to greater part of Syria , mixing with the Assyrians , when actual tribe of Thamud perished it was Imliq who are from Prophet SaaleH PBH the Akkadians are from Nabi Hud PBH and the Imliq are from Nabi SaaleH , they formed the Nabateans who are the Arameans who are the Chaldeans and also there is element of Arpahaxad as people of Arphaxad(not referring to Joktan) were dwelling in the West up until time actual tribe of Thamud perished ,
the Akkadians and Amorites(Imliq) mixed with the Canaanite Dravidians who are original Mediterranean and Sumerian people and the other Canaanites are same as pure native Americans and also there was element of North Africa . The Chaldeans mixed with the Indo aryan (Iranic medes Kurds) and the Indo Aryan Lydians who are the Neo Hittites and also both Medes and Lydians mixed
the Indo Aryan Lydians also went into Mediterranean and were known as the Minoans and Etruscans
the Semitic dna found in Southern india is thought to have come from Neolithic Greeks , probably not , it probably was the Minoans who are the Indo aryan Lydians who are the Hittites (neo Hittites)
Haplogroup J2a-M410 in India was found to be largely confined to the castes with no occurrence in the tribals, but a new study has found it at higher percentages (10%) among the Tharu indigenous people of Terai, Nepal. In India, the J2 haplogroup is almost absent from tribals. Haplogroup J2b is associated with the Neolithic Greeks that spread agriculture. It has been found in the Dravidian middle classes in high frequencies also in the Northwest of India.The frequency of J2 is higher in South Indian castes (19%) than in North Indian castes (11%) or Pakistan (12%).[20] Haplogroup J was found to be even more common in India's Shia Muslim community, of which 28.7% belong to haplogroup J, with 13.7% in J2a-M410, 10.6% in J1 and 4.4% in J2b. The high variance of J2b2 in South Asia indicates a probable pre-Neolithic migration.(wikipedia)
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A significant presence of J2 (J2b2+J2a) was detected in western and south-western India (the highest being 21% among Dravidian middle castes, followed by upper castes, 18.6%, and lower castes 14%; Sengupta et al. 2006)
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J2 is widely believed to be associated with the spread of agriculture from Mesopotamia."The main spread of J2 into the Mediterranean area is thought to have coincided with the expansion of agricultural people's during the Neolithic period." The age of J2 has been estimated as 18,500 +/- 3,500 years ago. Its distribution, centered in Western Asia and Southeastern Europe, its association with the presence of Neolithic archaeological artifacts, such as figurines and painted pottery, and its association with annual precipitation have been interpreted as evidence that J2, and in particular its J2a-M410 subclade belonged to the agricultural innovators who followed the rainfall. However, Di Giacomo stressed the role of post-Neolithic migratory phenomenon, specifically that of the Ancient Greeks, as also being important in the dispersal of Hg J2. Haplogroup J2b on the other hand is associated with the Neolithic Greeks that spread agriculture. It has been found in the Dravidian middle classes in high frequencies also in the Northwest of India
+rasheed1669 Hud was Yemeni ( Hadhrami )
Ummath al Muslimeen Alhamdulillah Rabbil Aalameen said perfectly summa Alhamdulillah
#Dylan Dog you can not judge a whole bunch of people just for a bad experience with two three or four it's unfair towards them you should judge people by who they are
The real kaba With archaeology to back Petra
Sometimes I missed Jordan
a servantsoftheownerofDeathNlife @ Servant of Life- always I miss Jordan. Every day of my life.
@@wendyrosen3179 im in jordan and i miss it haha
I see that one bedouin guy that works there in all the videos the one rideing the donky hes seems pretty cool
البدول ناس محترمين و مسالمين
لكن محرومين من عوائد السياحه الحقيقه بسبب عدم السماح لهم ببناء الفنادق اسوه ب اهل بلدة وادي موسى
ف عملهم في الرواحل و البسطات التي تبيع بعض التذكارات
Just phenomenally amazing...
Petra and generally Jordan is one of the few places that one should visit a couple of times to know it well. In Petra itself 4 days are needed to see it all. I have been there, that is the reason to write this. The place is simply breathtaking! And I guess the guides must be pretty tired at the end of a working day. I remember I literally refused to walk anymore, after 4 hours of continuous walking haha... That's why these guys make a living from transporting people on donkeys and camels, people get super tired after some time, place is massive.. But that energy there.... Absolutely special
Agreed. This place and Wadi Rum are truly unique destinations
Nice place to visit. Nice tour guys. Lol. Funny guide with the donkey.
i appreciate al jazeera world
The cute smiling girl at the end ... she'll now be a beautiful young woman.. picture of Bedouin humility, pride and beauty personified. 🙏❤️🌷
This is amazing, I am in love, wish I could visit. Love from Portugal.
What a life What misery but this is the way it amazing to know the other side of the world 🌎
petra good wishes from pakistan.
This Petra or Becca or Mecca the Holy City of Muslim before reformer move to Suadi location.
Yes, you are correct
Mekka or Bekka is the first ever city established by Adam AS.
Proof?
This is nonsense, and totally Bs.
Ok Zheng zheng , keep daydreaming
It's so sad how they didn't note down their religious beliefs. Nobody knows whom they used to worship. There aren't any unbiased sources. It hurts to see that they gave up their own religion and traditions for a foreign abrahamic religion that claimed it was the righteous one (Islam).
Consider how rigid they are to their customs and culture. Why would they accept Islam as true unless it was clear to them that it was and is the truth? The Quran talks about the very inhabitants of these enclaves and who they were.
Al Raqim (الرقيم) is the Arabic and the original name of Petra
I got teary eyes at the end of the video :')
abcde fghij wtf
Where are the Bedouin whom still live the traditional nomadic lifestyle in tents and caves without cellphones, gasoline, and radio?
Bro...... earth has been changed.they want to sirvive like us
Becca the true Mecca
The Bedouin were the first worshippers of God Yahweh.
Moses lived with them for 40 years before Yahweh sent him to rescue His people.
They were far more faithful to God and God compared their loyalty against The Jew's disloyalty.
The Bedouin resisted Mohammad for generations and resisted Islam. They remained faithful to God, far longer than any others.
Bedouin remained faithful to God, even under the most diabolical tortures inflicted upon them my Mahomet and his successors.
May Yahweh be with them, forever, His people.
Gutter Fighter he Bedouins continued being faithful to god by accepting Muhammad (pbuh).
i wonder how many ppl have a crush on that johny depp look-like :D
I found out his name is Ahmed and there’s several reports that these young men scam tourist females and even rape has occurred.
Bedouin people are the fathers of northern Ethiopia peoples especially the Amhara and Tigre peoples in Ethiopia, the where Yemeni Jew !!! Still today especially the Amhara and Tigre peoples when they check their DNA test it shows as Middle East and Yemeni Jew!!!!!
A simple lifestyle. No depression, no stress.
13:09 the way he's trying to hold in his laughter😂😂
Does anyone know what the watchmen do at AAron's Tomb and how they are financing their livelyhood?
I want to hear more of Issa playing the oud.
Is this way of life a threat to western capitalism?
Please Al Jazeera, explain the pitch black bedouin tribe called Kedar! Pitch black skin and an oral tradition telling of their descendancy of Abraham.Time to stop lying to yourself and the world.
They just want to refute the claim that petra is mecca, this station is all about Islamic propaganda
Kedar was not pitch black skin, but black as in tanned by the sun. Stop trying to turn Ham into Shem. African people are beautiful and have nice culture as children of Ham, but they are not Kedar nor are they Asaudia, which are both children of Shem. Arabs are Semites, like us Jews.
Kedar was not pitch black skin, but black as in tanned by the sun. Stop trying to turn Ham into Shem. African people are beautiful and have nice culture as children of Ham, but they are not Kedar nor are they Asaudia, which are both children of Shem. Arabs are Semites, same like Middle Eastern Jews.
Good videos
Absolutely magnificent. Missing home and can't wait to be back this summer.
In the world? Not likely!! in the Middle East perhaps
Beautiful documentary
I am descended from desert people too, and I resonate deeply
so how are my bedouins fasts going on. may ALLAh help you bear the heat of the desert ,ameen.
أتمنى لك مستقبل مشرقا؛ أطيب الأماني بمستقبل باهر؛ تمنياتي لك بمستقبل زاهر😎
Home is where the Heart it. Mashallah, and God Bless you all!
They are descendens from the nabatean arabs.
Beautiful!
Hi i watched this in class, very interesting. Handsome men
this was great. thank god i went on this video.
Truly! I resonate with the Bedouins, There is something in Petra that captured your soul! They are really friendly people.
al Badoul Looks like Gypsies to me, they are not Bidoon.
Noble and ancient people.
They are so accommodating and friendly
Award winning📽🎞🎬 documentary
Keep it up!
why does UNESCO owns the most beautiful places on this planet?
why does none do a documentary on them?