Sidi Barrani is a town in Egypt, near the Mediterranean Sea, about
95 km east of the Egypt–Libya border, and around 240 km from Tobruk, Libya.
Named after Sidi es-Saadi el Barrani, a Senussi sheikh who was a head of its Zawiya, the village is mainly a Bedouin community. It has food, gasoline outlets and one small hotel, but virtually no tourist activity or visited historical curiosities. It is the site of an Egyptian Air Force base.