BIRQASH, EGYPT — The sun is high and it’s a slow day for selling and there’s not much for a camel trader to do except scatter hay and greens and listen to the big beasts munch. Sounds like shoes ...

A camel vendor leads his camel at the camel market in Birqash, Giza, 25 km,16 miles north of Cairo, Egypt, on August 26, 2016. (Photo: Fayed El-Geziry /NurPhoto via Getty Images) A camel vendor leads ...

With a glance, Sheikh Mohamed Abdel Aal can tell whether a camel will make for a good steak or whether its meat will be tough and gamey. It's a skill he has mastered during five decades of selling the ...

For over a week now, Ahmed Awni has struggled to offload any of the "prime" cuts of camel haunch that dangle on bloodied hooks outside his Cairo butcher's stall. He's tried a few gimmicks—"Buy 5 kilos ...

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Ahmed and the camels he herds from Nahoud in Sudan to Egypt are vestiges of another age, a time greatly romanticized in both East and West when robed and rugged men like King Abdul Azziz Ibn Saud of ...