Ibn el-Gavri

Image Not Available for As in the time of the construction of the pyramids, lines of bedouin workers carry building material to the scaffolds. The melodies that are sung are the same that were sung 4,000 years ago.

Image Not Available for Cloister of buildings which are part of the prision.

Image Not Available for Eerily the tower of the monastery rises heavenward in the moonlight.

Image Not Available for From a penal colony in the desert, byzantine pictures from the 5th century which look alive in form and colour have been found.

Image Not Available for From a penal colony in the desert, byzantine pictures from the 5th century which look alive in form and colour have been found.

Image Not Available for From early childhood, this young bedouin boy has been ill from malaria.

Image Not Available for From one side of the cloister wall one can see nothing but rock without shrub and sand, sand and more sand.

Image Not Available for A group of marsh bedouins.

Image Not Available for A guard's watch tower towers above the Mar Saba monastery. From his post, the guard can see many miles.

Image Not Available for The hackney carriage, already in the European captials a legend, in the East, still the traditional transportation.

Image Not Available for The home made matts are secured together to make a home.

Image Not Available for Ibn el-Gavri, the first Arabic press photographer sits outside the Mar Saba monastery in the Yehudah desert.