Half length portrait of two ... Afghanistan

Half length portrait of two ... AfghanistanHalf length portrait of two Arab men in front of a rock wall in Dubai. The young man on the left wears a light coloured waistcoat over his thobe (ankle length shirt), and the handle of a khanjar (dagger) is visible at his waist. The man on the right wears a dark waistcoat over his thobe, and holds a folded bisht (robe) over his shoulder. Each man also wears a ghutra (headscarf). This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 10 18, 1948 stay in

In the foreground customers mill amongst traders sitting on the ground with large bags of merchandise

View of tower houses with walled exterior courtyards in the town of Qalat Bishah

Seated portrait of an elderly tribesman of the Rashid

with donkeys carrying goatskins of water (brought from the Shatt al Arab) in the foreground

wind-rippled sand leads into rolling downs dotted with bushes and other small vegetation

at the market in Bati

In the village a number of square flat-roofed houses built of stone sit at the foot of a pointed rock outcrop

crouches in the right foreground

likely built of coral and with a large barjeel on its roof

in the Western Desert

Portrait of Erope (a game scout)

The effects of sand-drifts are plainly shown in the photographs