In areas where water is plentiful, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, and peas are grown. Grapes, olives, oranges, peaches, and pears are also cultivated. The Jebala Arab also raise animals such as chickens, goats, and sheep. This provides eggs, milk, butter, and meat to supplement their diets. Little hunting or fishing occurs, but trading flourishes.
Housing ranges from villas to slums, with slums being dominant.
In the towns, rectangular homes made of adobe and stone line very narrow streets. In the villages, rectangular homes have frameworks of poles, walls of earth or dry stones, and roofs of thatch. Jebala Arab dress is typical of that of other Arabs. Most men wear faded, brown, long-sleeved Moroccan tunics made of cotton. Cotton turbans or caps and small leather pouches complete the outfit.