{"id":503,"date":"2010-07-22T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2010-07-22T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:17:09","slug":"sinai-tribal-gathering-in-wanderlust-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/22\/sinai-tribal-gathering-in-wanderlust-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinai tribal gathering (Wanderlust magazine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My latest feature, on a desert trek &amp; tribal gathering in Sinai, is now out in the August\/September edition of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/2jPgV\">Wanderlust<\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/nawamis-sheikh-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-530  \" title=\"Nawamis-sheikh-1\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/nawamis-sheikh-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sinai sheikh  \u00a9 Gail Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The scene was one that has been played out in the deserts of Arabia for centuries. A group of Bedouin sheikhs gathered round a\u00a0 campfire, sipping glasses of tea poured from bubbling, smoke-blackened kettles, the flickering flames casting a deep glow on sculpted, Biblical faces. And sitting among this distinguished group of tribal elders was me: one of a handful of Westerners sharing the first assembly of the seven tribes of South Sinai for over 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And here are the fantastic pictures from the piece by photographer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wanderlust.co.uk\/magazine\/photography\/tribal-gathering-in-sinai-desert-egypt\/final-resting-place\/1203\">Gary Latham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>All material is copyright \u00a9 Gail Simmons. All rights reserved.  Reproduction in whole or in part, by any means, is forbidden without the  written consent of the copyright holder.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My latest feature, on a desert trek &amp; tribal gathering in Sinai, is now out in the August\/September edition of\u00a0 Wanderlust magazine. &#8220;The scene was one that has been played out in the deserts of Arabia for centuries. A group of Bedouin sheikhs gathered round a\u00a0 campfire, sipping glasses of tea poured from bubbling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}