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'Tour the Bedouin Ruins of Sinai' by Aleksandra Mir — The grandeur of a lost civilization

Tour the Bedouin Ruins of Sinai

laid bare

awaiting archeological excavation

These dwellings

once housed a Sheikhs many wives

and children

bus shelters

and jails

Splendid architecture

with plenty of decorative detail

and vivid color

in the Arabic tradition

lie abandoned in the desert

one structure after another

and the next

which on closer inspection

may still be inhabited by a few local descendants

of a great visionary tribe

who mysteriously vanished

leaving their drained swimming pools behind

Related Projects

Tour the Hardcore Hardwoods of Hamburg, 2018
Tour the Solemn Souls of Sweden, 2018
Tour the Eternal Waves of Ericeira, 2018
Tour the Silversmiths of the Golden Horn, 2014
Tour the Potent Powers of Palermo, 2014
Tour the Water Puddles of Budapest, 2014
Tour the Ancient Carvings of Grindelwald, 2014
Tour the Cathedrals of East London, 2014

2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
- Satellite Porto Alegre
- Drowning London
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
- HELLO
1999
1998
- Tune in, Turn on, Drop by
- Cinema for the Unemployed
1997
1996
1995
- Life is Sweet in Sweden
1994
- Lonesome Cowboy

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