Testimony: the last waterskin maker in the neighbourhood
A craft that was in every house, and now one man still knows it. A recorded testimony about a trade on its way to disappearing.
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Testimonies
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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.
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