This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Sayyid or al-Sayed (Arabic: السيد; Hebrew: א-סייד) is a Bedouin village in Israel.

[1] The tribe's oral history tells that its first leader moved to the area from Egypt with his wife (of local origin) some time in the beginning of the 19th century.

[3] The social differences between the tribe and its neighbours led to opposition to plans to include the village within the municipality of the nearby city of Hura (that was established in 1989).

[3] One suggested cause is the high level of inbreeding within the tribe; 27% of marriages are between cousins, and 65% are between couples related in some way, and a quarter of the population carries the deafness gene.

[10] A journalist for The New York Times, Margalit Fox, wrote a book about it, called Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind, published in 2007.