Editing Bedouin (section)

===In the 20th century===
[[File:Bedoeïnen met hun schapen, Bestanddeelnr 255-6075.jpg|thumb|Bedouins in Syria in the 1950s]]
[[Raid (military)#Bedouin ghazzu|Ghazzu]] was still relevant to the Bedouin lifestyle in the early 20th century. After a 1925 stay with Sheikh [[Mithqal Al Fayez|Mithqal Al-Fayez]] of the [[Bani Sakher]], [[William Seabrook]] wrote about his experience of a ghazzu from the Sardieh tribe on Mithqal's 500 Hejin racing camels. The ghazzu was intercepted by Mithqal when he was notified about the Sardieh tribe's intentions from a man from the Bani Hassan tribe, who rode continuously for over 30 hours to reach Mithqal before their plot matured. Mithqal, using the information, prepared a trap for them, which resulted in the imprisonment of one of the Sardieh warriors. William notes that although the warrior was a prisoner, he was nonchalant and was not treated aggressively, and that the ghazzu wasn't a war, but a game in which camels and goats were the prizes.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Seabrook|first=William|title=Adventures in Arabia|publisher=George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd|year=1928|isbn=|location=Parker St. Kingsway, London, England.|pages=120–125}}</ref>

In the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Bedouin throughout Midwest Asia started to leave the traditional, nomadic life to settle in the cities of Midwest Asia, especially as hot ranges shrank and populations grew. For example, in [[Syria]], the Bedouin way of life effectively ended during a severe drought from 1958 to 1961, which forced many Bedouin to abandon herding for standard jobs.<ref>{{cite book |last=Etheredge |first=Laura |title=Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rLZQrmRQafcC&q=syria+drought+1958+bedouin&pg=PA12 |date=2011 |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-61530-329-8 |page=12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Marina |last1=Leybourne |first2=Ronald |last2=Jaubert |first3=Richard N. |last3=Tutwiler |url=http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/5397.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171010110548/http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/5397.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 October 2017 |title=Changes in Migration and Feeding Patterns Among Semi-nomadic pastoralists in Northern Syria |date=June 1993 |publisher=[[Overseas Development Institute]] }}</ref> Similarly, governmental policies in [[Egypt]], [[Israel]], [[Jordan]], [[Iraq]], [[Tunisia]], oil-producing Arab states of the [[Persian Gulf]] and [[Libya]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Peters |first=Emrys L. |title=The Bedouin of Cyrenaica: Studies in Personal and Corporate Power |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1q6Slx7opyoC&q=Libyan+Bedouin&pg=PA1 |date=1990 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-38561-9 |access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cole |first1=Donald Powell |last2=Altorki |first2=Soraya |title=Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-makers: Egypt's Changing Northwest Coast |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADV09ZIKNasC&q=Libyan+Bedouin&pg=PA103 |date=1998 |publisher=American University in Cairo Press |isbn=978-977-424-484-1 |page=103 |access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref> as well as a desire for improved standards of living, effectively led most Bedouin to become settled citizens of various nations, rather than stateless nomadic herders.

Governmental policies pressing the Bedouin have in some cases been executed in an attempt to provide service (schools, health care, law enforcement and so on—see [[Dawn Chatty|Chatty]] 1986 for examples), but in others have been based on the desire to seize land traditionally roved and controlled by the Bedouin. In recent years, some Bedouin have adopted the pastime of raising and breeding white [[dove]]s,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nataliepeart.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/bedouin-hospitality-the-beauty-of-the-white-desert |title=Bedouin hospitality & the beauty of the White Desert |first=Natalie |last=Peart |website=Part of this World |access-date=19 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804095533/https://nataliepeart.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/bedouin-hospitality-the-beauty-of-the-white-desert/ |archive-date=4 August 2016}}</ref> while others have rejuvenated the traditional practice of [[falconry]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheikhmohammed.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2bec4c8631cb4110VgnVCM100000b0140a0aRCRD |title=Falconry |website=sheikhmohammed.com |access-date=19 October 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924101206/http://www.sheikhmohammed.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2bec4c8631cb4110VgnVCM100000b0140a0aRCRD |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-travel-visiting-egypt-20130522-032,0,697845.photo |title=Falconry in the desert |agency=Reuters |date=22 May 2013 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=19 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514141531/http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-travel-visiting-egypt-20130522-032,0,697845.photo |archive-date=14 May 2014}}</ref>