#SINAI

[it-was-me-zion]

their nefarious ‘what were YOU doing at the devil’s sacrament’ vs our noble ‘we were all together at sinai’

[safije]

Bedouin Women, Sinai Egypt

[nobeerreviews]

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

-- Mary Hunter Austin

(Sinai, Egypt)

[jaffababe]

Women of Sinai -Al-‘Arish

The Sinai dress is a masterpiece of art. Some dresses are predominantly red and are only worn by married women, while the blue ones are worn by widows. Dresses with a mixture of blue and red are an indication that the wearer has ended her period of mourning and is now ready to marry again.

The number of colors and the geometric designs embroidered by the women of Sinai on their dresses makes the latter a marvelous background for their kind of jewelry. It is the same as the Palestinian dress known as the Bir Sab' dress, with reference to the Palestinian area adiacent to the borders of the Sinai Peninsula.

The burgu', or veil, is an important piece of adornment worn only by the married Bedouin women of Sinai. It can almost be considered a piece of jewelry, for it is covered with quantities of hilyat, or round pieces of silver or white metal, or even gold, and sometimes old metal coins. The burgu is also sometimes adorned with a number of chains attached to both sides of the veil, ending in silver units covered with primitive designs stamped onto them, or ending with units of tube coral.

There are only two types of veil in Sinai, the short one worn by the women of the Akharsa tribe and with it a silver necklace or pendant, and the long veil worn by the women of the Bayyada tribe. Unmarried girls leave their faces uncovered so that young men may see their beauty and seek to marry them.

The Sinai Peninsula is inhabited by a number of Bedouin tribes who migrated to Egypt from the Arab peninsula and Palestine in ancient times. They settled, mixed, and intermarried with the different communities of inhabitants surrounding the peninsula, starting with the people of the Egyptian governorate of Sharqiya to the inhabitants of Bir Sab' in Palestine. The borders were open then and an active trade exchange flourished. Moreover, the Palestinian towns and cities were a market for Egyptian products. As a result of the intermarriages, there is a great resemblance between the jewelry worn in Sinai and the jewelry worn in Palestine, so much so that some jewelry workshops in Cairo specialize in producing the pieces of jewelry sold in Palestinian markets.

- Sinai: Land of turquoise (The Traditional Jewelry of Egypt)

[roikinneret5764]

happy shavuot yiddim reblog if you saw me at sinai

[awanderinglostsoul]

Orange, Abu Gaddis & Wadi Sigilia

FEB., 2025

[along-the-silkroad]

Byzantine Painting of Saint Sergius as a Master of the Knights Templar, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt, c.1275 - c.1325.

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[mothmiso]

Sinai (2) (3) by Es Gedi

Via Flickr:

(1) View of the sea from above the canyon. Shot from Dahab during hiking. (2) Beautiful beach surrounded by sand dunes in Ras Mohamed nature reserve. The site is close to Marsa Bareika, a small bay inlet.     

[bi-numi-aliyani]

𐤁𐤓𐤊𐤕𐤟𐤀𐤕𐤊𐤌𐤟𐤋𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄𐤟𐤅𐤋𐤀𐤔𐤓𐤕𐤄𐤟

“Blessed are you all to 𒀭Yahweh and to 𒀭ʾAsheratah.” (Blessing of ʾAshiyaw, King of Yisraʾel-Shomeron; Pithos A, Kuntillet ʿAjrud site, c. 790 BCE)

[victusinveritas]

News not a repeat from 1152.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Israel

Israeli vintage postcard

[orthodoxadventure]

The oldest monastic community in the world is at St. Catherine’s Monastery, built around the Burning Bush at the base of Mount Sinai by the Emperor Justinian in the sixth century. Countless generations of holy ascetics struggled to free themselves from the passions in this revered center of Orthodox spirituality.

Bruce M. White Photography, from “The Hellenic Voice”

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Posting with permission from the artist, bunnii_e!

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[nobeerreviews]

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

-- Jean Baudrillard

(Egypt)

[awanderinglostsoul]

Hiking Scars!

Nuweib', Sinai, Egypt