View of the Shindagha district ... Frame:white

View of the Shindagha district ... Frame:whiteView of the Shindagha district from the Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek. In the foreground 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds line Dubai Creek. Two large dhows (sailboats) are beached in watery sand at the centre of the creek. On the far left a square stone watchtower, the Shindagha, rises high above nearby houses in the Shindagha district. Further along in the Shindagha district, on the far side of the creek, one and two storey houses

He is wearing a wraparound skirt and a ghutra (headscarf) and looks into the far distance

with boats moored in the foreground

Camel blankets lie in the sand behind the wakir

standing on the crest of a dune in the Awarik sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Salih and Raikan accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Ain to Al Dhafra sands

Behind them a boy stands at the entrance to the hut

The harbour at Al Mukalla

wearing a dagger in scabbard across his waist

also wearing uniform

kneeling on the ground outside Qasr Al Hosn fort

Behind the boys

Beyond them rolling dunes rise along the horizon below a cloudless sky