In the "18 Sharjah Heritage Days"
Bedouin environment .. a life that smells of cardamom
Visiting the Bedouin environment pavilion in the "18 Sharjah Heritage Days" is not just a tourism to take pictures. Rather, it gives the visitor an opportunity to fix time and rediscover the human self in the most beautiful cases of simplicity. The intimacy of the place and the aesthetics of the values produced by the environment around it
To the right of the entrance that leads the visitor to the pulse of the pure Bedouin community, the camel shepherd stands next to his camel, exchanging patience with it and contemplating the faces with his hereditary horses.
And there is no noise in the paddles of the desert, because silence is wisdom, and because coffee is waiting on a slow fire, near a rug woven from goat hair.
From those strings also spinning "zriul" which is worn on the feet to protect against the heat of the sand, and making the lavender that is placed on the head like an Iqal to fix the ghutra.
The design of the Bedouin environment pavilion was based on realistic simulations, there is the sandy floor that creates an impression that helps to imagine the topography of the desert, so standing on the edge of the well surrounded by sand becomes a clear message, alerting the visitor to the value that every drop of water represents to humans, animals and plants, and does not force the traveler in the Bedouin environment Unless the pasture dries up and the water becomes scarce, or the family and loved ones have left, and they must catch up.
Visitors focus their lenses on a Bedouin roasting coffee beans .. Moving them as if he is counting the number of their dark brown grains, and as they are prepared and ready to be crushed with cardamom pods, the cameras lenses on the corner of the coffee grow more and more, at which time the scent of Arab hospitality in all its origins and rituals smells.
The Bedouin receives his guests and sets up his majlis in the “House of Poetry”, in front of which a rug of sand extends, and every sip of coffee in the house of poetry gives the guest a feeling of the grace of shade in the heat of the day, and every night in the desert is an opportunity to nip the stars, because the horizon is open and not blocked by a ceiling or wall.
With a few personal belongings, life can go in the desert;
A camel, three sheep, a well of water, a bag of flour and another of dates, a container for milk, a bottle of water, and a coffee with the smell of cardamom.
But the eye does not see everything, for that is not the only means to live in the Bedouin environment, because what is not seen is more than what is captured by the lenses of phones and cameras, there is generosity, courage, discernment, patience, loyalty and love.
The design of the Bedouin environment pavilion was based on realistic simulations and visualization of the desert's topography.
The Bedouin sits in the "House of Poetry", in front of which a sand rug extends.
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