Is the capital of the province of North Sinai. In the city of El Arish tribes Malalha and Altaya and Swarka and decorated and Trabien and the number of Tribe tribe in Arish 70 thousand people. Al-Arish residents are the residents of Al-Arish, most of whom are attributed to the garrison of Al-Arish castle, which was abolished by Muhammad Ali. The soldiers and officers who came from Turkey and the Bosniacs were present in their families. They are related to the origins of the Nile Valley, such as the al-Mutari family and the Hijawi family, who are associated with Zakaria al-Hijjawi. The families of the al-Karim family are descended from Al-Yaqoub and the family of Sulaiman, including the Osman family. There are also al-Nakhlwa who return to the Nakhil garrison in central Sinai and They have the same assets as the garrison of Al-Arish castle, although their prints tend to be Bedouin because of their historical interaction with the Sinai Bedouins in the middle, especially the Malaha and Al-Awamir tribes. The majority of the sources, including Naum Bek Shukair, are from Syria. There are also among the Arabis who return to nomadic tribes such as the Ayadi family and return to the Ayyeda tribe and the Turbani family who return to the tribe of Tarabin from Baqum and beyond the tribe of Tarabin in Arish 70 thousand people are concentrated Bedouins in the city of El Arish in the eastern, western, northern and southern regions and in the neighborhood of Safa lives large numbers of Bedouins from the tribe of Tiaha and Sawarka.
Before Al-Arish was the capital of the province of North Sinai was ruled by the Bedouin system and the village system, which is the system of the mayor so called the family of Karim Karim that they «mayors» because the vertical remained under their hands throughout the pre-peace was the house of the mayor open to all people to resolve problems and disputes .. The mayor is never and the most famous of those who took the holy Haj Karim Abdul Shafi Karim and Haj Saleh Karim, who died to the mercy of God in the occupation period and refused to his son Al-Hajj Rushdie Saleh Karim take over the vertical during the occupation to not deal with the Zionist authority and after the peace came to the land of Arish .. El-Arish and around Sinai region to two provinces .. North Sinai and its capital Arish and South Sinai and its capital city of Tour and the most important tourist cities Sharm El Sheikh, which holds most of the conferences and presidential meetings. And the area became an area to attract tourists, investors and people for easy to fool and good people and the availability of all the resources for a decent life at the lowest prices so that the number of arrivals to El Arish more than the number of people of Arish indigenous Arabs themselves, and there are many people of El Arish could not return to El Arish after the Israeli aggression and worked abroad And in the Gulf states. And works in the city of El Arish sons of the valley, who came after the peace and the return of Sinai to Egyptian sovereignty and the majority of government employees.
