The Noble Nomad

As I leave the Magic Kingdom, after ten contented and peaceful years, I take along with me the romanticised vision of the Bedouin, the nomads of the Arabian desert.

Because he expected so little from life, the Bedu had an inner freedom to come and go as he pleased. He regarded the ties of the settled Arab as unworthy of a man, and carried with him none of the concerns of the settler, such as anxieties over property and the accumulation of wealth (or, for that matter, what was on television that evening!).