Awlad
Ali live in Egypt and Cyrenica, in 1971
Mohsen estimated that there were 100,000
or so members of the tribe in the desert.
The Sahara is the world's second largest
desert (second to Antarctica), over 9,000,000
km² (3,500,000 mi²), located
in northern Africa and is 2.5 million
years old. The entire land area of the
United States of America would fit inside
it. Its name, Sahara, is an English pronunciation
of the word for desert in Arabic. The
boundaries of the Sahara are the Atlantic
Ocean on the west, the Atlas Mountains
and the Mediterranean Sea on the north,
the Red Sea and Egypt on the east, and
the Sudan and the valley of the River
Niger on the south. Sahara is divided
into western Sahara, the central Ahaggar
Mountains, the Tibesti massif, the Aïr
Mountains (a region of desert mountains
and high plateaus), Tenere desert and
the Libyan desert (the most arid region).
The highest peak in the Sahara is Emi
Koussi (3415 m) in the Tibesti Mountains
in northern Chad.
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