فيلم وثائقي قديم عن الجزيرة العربية

د. يوسف الشحي · ⏱ 3:39 · 3.1K مشاهدة · 6 yr ago

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Arabia is land of terrible heat and terrible Berenice attractive desert as big as Western Europe practically untouched by the world until few years ago to anybody who doesn't live there it seemed the land of mystery and romance full of the exotic promise of the Vale there are still people who think of it as the land of herons and the Arabians in reality it's harsh and lonely place only water makes Arabia bearable where there's water there's life waters so important that the Arabian Oasis became the direct inspiration of the Muslim idea of heaven and no wonder when you come to the cool shade of the Dead Gardens after the heat and emptiness of the desert the Oasis seems literally heavenly place of pure pleasure every well in the desert is like port the camel caravans crossed the desert like ships across the sea there are no frontiers no fixed territory no land belonging to anyone but are just the wandering bedouins and their camels as attached to each other as sailors and their ships bringing their trade to the desert market it's hard life in Arabia and it breeds hard men but it is perfectly adjusted now to the hard land that's lived in as it was in the days of Abraham the father of all the tribes there's still solid biblical rhythm about it if you want to know what the loaves looked like in the Bible parable here they are baking in Arabia today just as they did 2,000 years ago on the shores of ganodi it ends where the fish have changed much either the women of Arabia still hide behind the veil as Arabia itself has done for centuries around the coasts the arab boats are made today by hand and and ancient equipment much as they were when the spice trade and the slave trade kept him busy from china to the shores of Africa to the Arabs the sea was source of wealth that the barren land could not provide fishing and curling trading smuggling and especially piracy Arab sailors in the Indian Ocean on the Persian Gulf preyed on the ships of Europe in the Indian trade in the end that piracy was their downfall with few naval sleuths and some of the queerest treaties ever devised by man the British Empire imposed on two-thirds of Arabia's coast the thin red line of peace