#tataouine

[tunisian]

ksar ghilane, tataouine

[lutnistas]

Ksar Ouled Soltane ( Tataouine / Tunisia ) 

[ulthaddouk]

Tataouine, summer 2008, digital camera, CANON EOS 650D

[16h23min]

I'm going to buy everyone's share of my grandparents' tribe's Ksours and caves in Tataouine and turn them into a guest house, who's with me?

[call-me-travella-or-ramy]

I will do the dopest visual ever right here

[arquivoufo]

Meteorito de Tataouine: A origem do mistério e os segredos do sistema solar

Em 27 de junho de 1931, uma chuva de fragmentos de um meteoro iluminou os céus da cidade de Tataouine, Tunísia, que ficou conhecida por ser um local de filmagem da série Star Wars. Os residentes ficaram maravilhados ao testemunhar uma bola de fogo explodindo e centenas de meteoritos caindo sobre a cidade. Embora o meteorito de 1931, conhecido como diogenito, não seja originário do planeta…

[deadassdiaspore]

Cave Dwelling of Tataouine , Tunisia.

[antephotos]

Ksar Ghilane, Tataouine Governorate, Tunisia

[lejournaldupeintre]

Why are migrants to Europe fleeing from and through Tunisia?

“Everyone is suffering from an economic crisis and all the youth want to leave — with or without papers.” The once bustling cafes in Tataouine, a remote desert town in southern Tunisia, are full of empty chairs. Their dwindling patrons, mostly young men, spend long afternoons sipping coffee or tea as they scroll idly through their phones, watch football or play cards. Many of these men are…

[friendswithclay]

“The Ksar Ouled Soltane Tataouine Tunisia”

[elbiotipo]

I didn't add that to my tropical enviroments in fiction post, but some people talked about Tatooine in Star Wars as an example of a tropical or at least not-temperate home to heroes like Luke and Anakin, and the thing about Tatooine is that it's not a home. Luke hates it and wants to escape from it. Anakin was raised as a slave there, his infamous meme line is "I hate sand". Same with Rey and Jakku (the running gag is that nobody wants to go to Jakku). Every time characters go to Tatooine, it's portrayed as an exotic planet full of adventure and danger. Not a home.

Which is *interesting* because the home of Luke (and Anakin) is an actual home in one of the traditional Berber styles in Matmata, Tunisia, where it was filmed. The name Tatooine comes from Tataouine in Tunisia. Those exotic places that you see in the movies are or were homes to people and they have been for centuries. People who consider the desert home, like others would consider forests, jungles, plains, or oceans home. But, like I said, tropical and desert enviroments are instead always the Exotic, the Place of Adventure. Never home.

Wouldn't it have been interesting if Luke missed the heat of Tatooine (I know I have missed it when I went to colder places). If he missed the clear desert sky, the twin suns, the customs of his home, feeling a bit alienated in a perfectly clean spaceship instead of a warm lived-in place? Just something to think.

[lutnistas]

Chenini ( Tunisia ) 

[hastalavistabyebye]

did i see something about tusken inspo 👀

To be fair, it's like Tatooine inspiration at large. But yes, much many ideas :D

Oh this is going to be long... *crack knuckles*

Okay so Tatooine is inspired by Tunisia which is not a secret (for the folks that don't know, the name comes from the town Tataouine and the scenes in the movies were filmed in three other Tunisian cities). Added to that is the fact that the Tuskens were inspired by the Bedouins, a nomad people of north Africa.

Now, there is an Umayyad (medieval Islamic dynasty, 661-750) farm in Jordan named Qusayr Amra :

Which gives massives Tatooine vibes.

The Umayyads (and the Abbasid dynasty right after) rules over a large territory, which extend as far as the Maghreb. So the comparison of a Jordan farm to the Tunisia cities used for star wars is understandable.

Now those geographical and chronological markers give me a well of material to get inspiration for Tatooine and the Tuskens. (I includ the Abbasids because they're in the lineage of the Umayyads and the aesthetic match what I think would suit nicely for the Tuskens.)

The ceramic cup in the middle is Umayyad. The decor comes from an antic (Roman Empire) aesthetic that is still very present in this dynasty's art. Now you could replace those vigns by something more space looking, like space oasis flora.

The Kufic inscription would be out of place for the Tuskens. Except if we look into a Kufic calligraphy that appears a bit later which is composed with little characters adorning the letters. What I propose is that the Tuskens could have a sort of writing system composed of pictograms representing their signs. They could carve those pictograms on the cliffs as well as their ceramics or weapons...

This cup is not from north Africa I give you that (like the two next objects, it's from Susa in Iran. That site is way too rich and big....), but with it being Umayyad it doesn't betray the original inspiration for Tatooine. Plus it would look really cool and that's the most important.

(The vase on the left could also look really cool in a tusken hut I think)

All of those are Abbasids. I took the left picture for the bol in the centre but that green one looks great too (I think it's jadeite or nephritis but I'm not sure).

I just think they would look super cool as Tuskens ceramics. The jug on the right is a lil favorite of mine. It's a very luxurious object (both are really) because of the glaze. The blue is obtained with cobalt from Afghanistan (if I'm not wrong, I need to check) which was not an easy thing to get (we're at the 9/10th century here). But the technique itself and the forms are still simple enough that I think it'll mix well with a space nomad tribe culture in a desert.

Now we could look into other dynasties productions and I should look back at my notes on Middle and Near East Antiquity, because there most likely has more things to dive into there.

I don't think Tuskens would use much metal or if they do, it'll be forging with scraps bought from the Jawas. To cut and grave little pendants and ornaments, spikes, that kind of things. But I sort of think the only way to forge for them would be by using their ceramic kilns (if they have any and not just tempory holes dig specially for it), that's why I didn't look into Islamic metal production. I just don't think they'll have forges with them being nomad like that. But it's still a possibility of course.

Anyway, that was a little look into the ideas I've been munching on lately.

[spiritsdancinginthenight]

The Amazigh of Tataouine

[peterfields]

Get inspired! Today with...

- Baker Jacket in Wabash by @tellason_germany @tellason

- Le Chèche in jaquard indigo, Tataouine Shirt in Kaki Linen and Le Pantalon "Cargo Denim Selvedge" in Heavy Used by @fleursdebagne

- Fisherman's Musette in Suede rock and Stripe Shoulder Strap by @bleudechauffe

[ferielmesbeh]

💛 (à Chenini Tataouine Tunisia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOYUVBoA3CsvwV7f4pehnxEr6aPl2Q6vvFwO40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=