A member of an Arab or mixed Arab-Berber nomadic group inhabiting parts of northeastern Africa, particularly the Sahara Desert region.
From Arabic 'Bisha'arin' or similar, referring to a Bedouin ethnic group. The English spelling reflects anglicized transliteration of Arabic tribal names from 19th-20th century colonial-era texts.
The Bishareen represent one of Africa's least-studied desert peoples—despite crossing some of the world's harshest terrain for centuries, they appear more in Victorian explorer diaries than in modern anthropology, making them a kind of invisible civilization.
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