Desert rain pool, 1909
From the Old Bahrain Facebook page, which I like: “28th November 1909: A rain pool near Hamma in the desert in what is today Saudi Arabia. Photo credit; W.H.I. Shakespear.”
Month: July 2025
Great Mosque of Riyadh ca. 1918
The likeness of these larger Najdi public buildings with ancient Semitic ones never ceases to fascinate me.
Hamdaany Darak, Hamdani Ibn Ghiyam from Bahrain
Very proud of Darak, one of three Diva sons to come to France. Diva was one of Danah Al Khalifah’s best mares.
The black stallion of General Mouzaffer
The photo below comes from the article ‘L’Arabe et l’Anglo-Arabe à l’Exposition hippique universelle’, from Le Sport Universel Illustré, 22 September 1900. The original caption reads: DEHMAN-CHUEIMAN Pur-sang arabe noir, 1 m. 48, né en 1895, dans la tribu Chammar; 1er prix des étalons de pur-sang arabe, appartient au général Mouzaffer The stallion, bred by … Read more