Nomadic Bedouins set up camp by the housing blocks of Egypt's Nile Delta

A Bedouin nomad woman, Thanaa Abeda, poses for a photograph with her kids at her tent during a stay along a highway road, which leads to the capital city of Cairo, on Egypt's Nile Delta province of Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt February 19, 2022. Picture taken February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Hadeer Mahmoud

KAFR EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - With the roads and brick housing blocks of Egypt's densely populated Nile Delta in the distance, Elsayed Abuhamed and his family have pitched their tents in a field scattered with straw, tied up their livestock, and are cooking over an open fire.

They are part of the El Dawaghra tribe, more than 300 families of livestock herders who for generations have wandered the land as nomads, resisting the urge to settle like many other Bedouin tribes.