FirstLook: Mobile Library, Java

FirstLook May/June 2019 PDF
- Photographed by Putu Sayoga
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In 2015 Ridwan Sururi of Serang Village, central Java, Indonesia, started the Kudapustaka (Horse library), and since then, three days a week, he has visited villages and schools like Miftahul Huda Islamic Elementary School. On this day he was joined by his two-year-old son, Tria Ramadhan. Together they handed out donated books to the students. As a photographer I did this story because I was also born in a village with difficult access to books. I believe in the power of books, and I know what Mr. Sururi is doing is important.
—Putu Sayoga
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@putu_sayoga @arkaproject

Camels and Culture—A Celebration

Written by Shaistha Khan
Photographed by Hatim Oweida
Video by Holam Entertainment

Celebrating their national animal, some 40,000 camels are brought by truck, by trek, singly and in herds, to compete in contests of beauty, speed and obedience outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Camel-culture exhibits round out the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival.

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Bling Your Camel

Written and photographed by Beliz Tecirli

Want your camel to stand out from the herd? Don’t think too hard about endurance—it’s pretty much a given for a camel. Speed? Not every camel has it. But accessories? Maybe an artistic fur-cut? That’s up to you.

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The Art of Saddling a Camel

Written by Doug Baum
Photographed by Nick Keller

Since the earliest days of domestication, the camel’s hump—or humps—have challenged would-be riders. In Africa, Arabia, India and Central Asia, saddle designs have long expressed both utility, beauty and culture.

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The Culinary Camel

Written by Sara Al-Bassam
Photographed by Hatim Oweida

From Bedouin banquets to hipster hashi-burger food trucks, Camel is one of the world’s fastest-growing health-and-heritage consumer product sectors. How does camel taste? There's only one way to find out.

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2019 Gregorian-Hijri Calendar – Camel

Introduction by Peter Harrigan

Herded, saddled, loaded by traders; cared for, sung about and even sung to—one-humped dromedaries prove extraordinary in deserts where the sun is hot; two-humped Bactrians rank no less in others where it is not. Let the rhythmic gaits of our calendar camels carry you along for the year.

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Flavors: Saudi Camel Meatballs

Recipe by Anissa Helou

The first time I tasted camel was some 25 years ago in Damascus, Syria.

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FirstLook: Morning <em>tafheem</em>, al-Rumah, Saudi Arabia

FirstLook: Morning tafheem, al-Rumah, Saudi Arabia

Photograph by Abdullah Sulaiman Alshathri

To get camels ready for races, they are taken out for tafheem, an Arabic word that has two main meanings in English.

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A Museum of the World

Written by Ana M. Carreño Leyva
Photographed by Richard Doughty

Ten years in the making and the first universal museum in the Arab world, the newly opened Louvre Abu Dhabi sets out a dozen themed galleries to tell cross-civilizational stories about the relationships of cultures—in every land, from the earliest settlements to today—that informed and inspired each other along their myriad respective quests of expression and beauty.

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