Day: September 20, 2018
South Africa’s Tuwaissan 1955
Pienaar Du Plesssis shared this ‘new’ photo of the 1955 Tuwaissan stallion which Valerie Noli-Marais got from Bahrain. I think it comes from the book of Hasan bin Salih al-Ruway’i, but I am not sure. that’s because its Hasan in the picture.
Madron and Denis at Hatchem’s encampment in 1925
The following excerpt, in French, followed by my translation to English, from the French government buying commission led by Madron and Denis, describes three stallions it examined at the encampment of Hatchem (Hakem) Ibn Mhayd, leader of the Fad’aan Bedouins, north of Raqqa, in May 1925. Their long, detailed report, is the French equivalent of … Read more