Wadi Rum
Dana
“It was a long night. The hot and humid wind, carrying the salt of the Dead Sea, surrounded the mud walls of our house, laying seige to the village.”
Pillars of Salt, Fadia Faqir
Amman
Petra
“I met Mohammad Abdallah in Petra. My friend Elizabeth and I were sitting on the rock-cut steps of the Treasury with our backs against a giant column when the young man sat down on the step below and started to chat.”
Married to a Bedouin, Marguerite van Geldermalsen