Photos from the Wadi Rum Desert Marathon

Dec 23, 2009 Comments Off Mark Abouzeid

Wadi Rum Marathon Images by Bedouin Heritage Project The Wadi Rum Marathon is an endurance horse race through the desert's surrounding the Wadi Rum Protected Zone. The event was reborn thanks to the contribution of Sheik Al-Maktoum of the Emirates and has been essential in recreating the horse culture of local bedouin. This year's race ...

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Breeding camels: a lesson on traditions, economics and love

Dec 23, 2009 Comments Off Ingrid Bouilliart

[caption id="attachment_769" align="alignright" width="353" caption="A bedouin herding his camels."][/caption] Sabbah is breeding camels, in addition to his activity as a tourist guide. He first tried to keep camels in the village, close to his house, but that didn’t allow him to set up a real herd. So he had to keep them in a fence, on the ...

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Cultural Diversity and Global Sustainability

Oct 27, 2009 Comments Off Mark Abouzeid

UNESCO and the world's foundations have come to understand that current measures provide short term fixes, generally, and a more long term approach to solving the world's various problems is required. “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day;  Teach a man to fish and he will feed his whole village!”

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