Khalid Saleem was born in 1915 and his
wife Hilah in 1920, both in the Al Ahsa
Region. Like his father and grandfather,
Khalid worked all his life as a nomadic
pastoralist herding sheep and camels.
His wife, Hilah, worked taking care of
the home, her parents and the children.
In those days, most sons of
Bedouin families joined their fathers
migrating with their herds of camels
and sheep to new grazing lands and
for access to water. Khalid and Hilah
had five sons and three daughters.
Some of his sons started working as
taxi drivers and builders when there
was not much work herding and they
were close to a town. But the youngest
son, Hamad, went to live with his
aunt and uncle in Hufuf in 1955 when