Al-Rawda, North Sinai

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Al-Rawda (Arabic: الروضة) is a village in the Bir al-Abed area of North Sinai, Egypt. It is a center for the Jaririya Sufi order, with many residents belonging to that group and to the Sawarka tribe. The Al-Rawda mosque and its zawiya were built in 1953–1954 by Eid Abu Jarir and were expanded around 1990, adding a minaret. In 2016, about 2,111 people lived there. The village has been heavily affected by the Sinai insurgency, taking in displaced people from nearby towns, and in 2017 a mosque attack killed about 22% of the village’s men. The local economy includes a salt factory that processes materials from nearby coastal salt works at the Zaranik Protectorate on the Bardawil lagoon, and farming.