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all photographs, text and web design by
Zbigniew Kosc © 2001 Amsterdam

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The photographs were taken by Zbigniew Kosc at Berenike, Manazig, Arab Salah,
Wadi el-Kharit (el-Nasr) in Egypt during January-February 1998.
Wadi el-Kharit during January 2000
Berenike, Manazig, and the wadis of the Eastern Desert during February 2001

with thanks to

prof. dr. Steve Sidebotham, Univ. of Delaware, USA, director of excavations at Berenike
dr. Willeke Wendrich,The EDAP project at Berenike, Egypt/ UCLA
NCDO Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Foundation Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
, Agfa Gevaert AG, Leverkusen, BRD
Esther Kinsky, London, (English translation)
Gama, Wadi el-Kharit, Egypt
Aid, Manazig, Egypt

... and all Ababda friends who helped me on this project

links

Ababda

Perceptions of the Ababda and Bisharin in the Atbai
by Janet Starkey

Bedja

The Bedja of the Sudan

Bedouins

"The Original Arab, The Bedouin"
by Philip K. Hitti

La Musique des Bedouins

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Bedouin weaving

Bedouin woman in Lebanon

The Bedouins of the Saudi Arabia

The Negev Bedouins

The Bedouins in Palestine

On Bedouins wars, honor and diplomacy

Berenike

Brief history of Berenike

Archeological excavations 1

Archeological excavations 2

Desert

Eastern Desert 1

Eastern Desert 2

The Egyptian Eastern Desert
by Hans Barnard

Jebel Elba

The A-Z of Camel

Camel - pictures & facts

Acacia (Sayali)

Egypt

Egypt - the people

Egypt under Roman Empire

Sudan and Nubia

Exploring Nubia

Kush, Meroe and Nubia

Ancient Nubia

Sudenese singing 1908-1958
by El Sirr A. Gadour

Adventures

"Arabian Sands"
by Wilfred Thesiger

"Lawrence of Arabia"
by J.Wilson

Maps

Red Sea
Beadekar 1860

Varia

What is belly dance?

Gold

Female Circumcision

"Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors'
by Max Tilke

Race and Slavery in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis

Encylopaedia of the Orient

Alsherif

books

C. Klunzinger, Upper Egypt: its people and its products (1878, 2000)

A.E.P. Weigall, Travels in the Upper Egyptian Deserts (1909 & 1913)

L.A. Tregenza, The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt (1955)

G.W. Murray, Dare Me to the Desert (1967 & 1968)

G.W. Murray, Sons of Ishmaels: A study of the Egyptian Bedouin (1935)

J.J. Hobbs, Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness (1989).

J. Starkey, O. El Daly.(ed), Desert Travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence (2000)

my Ababda pages

entire text

map

Ababda color photographs

Ababda b'w photographs

Ababda farmers in el-Nasr

Ababda in the desert

Ababda Music (mp3)

about Egypt

Islamic Cairo

Journey to the Ruins of Ancient Egypt