Coffee Not Meant for Drinking
The first cup is for the guest, and the second for the sword,
Published work
The wasm: writing on stone and skin
Before identity papers, the wasm said whose camels these were and where their owner came from.
The café: a new majlis with old rules?
Part of social life has moved into cafés. Did the rules of the majlis move with it?
How is a mud house built? — on video
A short documentary recording the stages of building a mud wall the traditional way, from mixing the clay to roofing.
A Market at Dusk
The sellers fold away their voices as the mats are folded.
Mud houses in Qassim: an architecture that lets you answer the climate
Mud architecture in Najd is not primitive. It is a sophisticated environmental engineering system that answers climate, society and economy with an efficiency modernity has yet to match.
Pearl diving: a trade that vanished and a memory that stayed
Before oil, pearls were the entire economy of the eastern coast. What remains of a trade that ended within a single generation?
Social change in Saudi cities: field notes
Between 2015 and 2025 Saudi cities went through rapid social change that deserves careful anthropological observation — neither blind celebration nor despairing critique.
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