The Ship of the Desert

Taimour Rabadi

The documentary photography project THE SHIP OF THE DESERT by Taimour Rabadi presents the sedentary and semi-sedentary Bedouin society where they are living in Wadi rum, Jordan. Some of them kept living deep in the desert but near to small villages, whereas on the contrary, the majority are living in the villages that are located around the desert and near to cities. The desert is huge, even though, the Bedouins have managed to adapt to living and create their comfort zone to live with what the desert is awarding them.
The desert is a rigid and tough place to live where it implicated on the Bedouin folks, whereas, the Bedouins had used the desert as a physical space to produce a lived space, hence, it created a cultural, traditional, and historical description among the Bedouin generations, also, created the motifs of their deferent characters such as endurance and patience, loyalty, hospitality and generosity, bravery and combat, poetry with dance and music, appearance and ornament, and more, nomadism and travel. Hence, all their characters and qualities have created a relationship between them and the vast desert nature, even more so with its animals such as the camel.