What are Arab tents?

Answer 1

There are two general categories of Arabs: Fellahin or Settled Arabs and Bedouin or Nomadic/Desert Arabs. The Fellahin, which make up the overwhelming majority of the Arab population (95%), all live in towns or cities and "normal" houses or apartments. The Bedouins historically lived in tents, but today, as substantial minority live in houses or apartments where they have been forcibly settled by regimes as diverse as Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

For those Bedouins who still live in tents, the reason they do so is because they are a nomadic people who need to provide enough grazing land for their flocks of sheep. As a result, having a fixed dwelling is not useful when trying to keep up with migrating to new pastures. As a result, they use tents since they are easily assembled, disassembled, and reassembled, while still providing sanctuary from the elements. Bedouin tents are typically made using wooden poles to hold up woolen fabrics. These are often dyed in traditional colors that pertain the Bedouin Tribe in question (often patterns of red, black, and white).