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A Cultural Heritage Literary Novel: . . . her camera reveals unforseen secrets of a ruthless desert No stranger to challenge; the freelance American-Israeli documentary photographer, embarks on an adventure-filled, hazardous journey to photograph the Bedouin of Sinai. Ayishah meets her charismatic desert guide, Hakim Al-khalifa; whose life is lived on a rugged terrain where a constant battle for survival forces the Bedouin into illicit dealings, Thirty years his elder, their age difference mean little in a parched landscape hiding so many secrets. Ayishah is slowly drawn into a highly-fobidden love affair, and learns of Hakim's dangerous underground involvement in opium and female trafficking from Sinai to Israel. Along this risky journey Ayishah becomes suspect of Egyptian authorities, and together with two innocent Russian women; prey of a Russian prostitution syndicate, Ayishah is now forced to escape her beloved Sinai. This novel is a result of many journeys to the Gulf of Akaba and Sinai’s mystical landscapes.
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Desperate to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, the U.S. born photojournalist receives an assignment in the Sinai Desert to photograph Bedouin nomads.' A woman dedicated to her work, she is now determined to 'survive on her own.'
Ayishah encounters the unique nomadic lifestyle, their simplistic existence and ways of survival in barren landscapes. Her fascination of the desert and the Bedouin living there, their wondrous poetry and the terrain of the often threatening Sinai Desert and mountains are vividly woven into AYISHAH's story.
She is fifty-seven. He is twenty-seven. But the sands of the desert are uncaring of such differences. Ayishah is confronted by her infatuation with her Bedouin guide, HAKIM AL-KHALIFA. Their fascination for each other grows... and in the sands of the desert, there is freedom and space to love. But, as it often happens in affairs, their love is taboo. The couple is under constant suspect, while Hakim is deeply involved in the trafficking of women and opium.
"Whispers of the desert" is a harrowing journey through a secret, Bedouin underworld; the private account of a daring woman.
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Ayishah encounters the unique nomadic lifestyle, their simplistic existence and ways of survival in barren landscapes. Her fascination of the desert and the Bedouin living there, their wondrous poetry and the terrain of the often threatening Sinai Desert and mountains are vividly woven into AYISHAH's story.
She is fifty-seven. He is twenty-seven. But the sands of the desert are uncaring of such differences. Ayishah is confronted by her infatuation with her Bedouin guide, HAKIM AL-KHALIFA. Their fascination for each other grows... and in the sands of the desert, there is freedom and space to love. But, as it often happens in affairs, their love is taboo. The couple is under constant suspect, while Hakim is deeply involved in the trafficking of women and opium.
"Whispers of the desert" is a harrowing journey through a secret, Bedouin underworld; the private account of a daring woman.
Educated at the University of Hardcore Travel... 53 countries stamped into her passports... For over two decades, the author, Linda Ruth Horowitz has worked as a freelance photo-journalist in Scandinavia and Europe, publishing photographs and stories for magazines and publications. Her works have been exhibited internationally.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1483939464
- ISBN 13 9781483939469
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages244
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