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Bedouin nights: Spending an evening with Saudi Arabia's Al Faqeer tribe
We travel 50 kilometres from the historic Saudi city of Al Ula, to meet a tribe whose hospitality is as generous as its spirit
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Saeed Saeed
May 09, 2019
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