For hundreds of years, the Bedouin migrated from one area to another, looking for drinking water and grass. Those two items were quite essential for the continuation of human and animal lives in their arid environments. Their life follows a rhythm, between moving and pausing. As a result, the Bedouins were forced to construct their tent homes to be quite simple, highly functional, and light in weight.

Out of necessity, Bedouin , used special homemade woven materials called Sadu to build their tents “Bait-al-Sha’ar". The Sadu weavings were the basic building and forming materials for almost all the Bedouin’s utilitarian items, and the Bedouin women used natural dye to color their white wool making colorful yarns and weaving joyful pieces.

The most interesting thing to me was the realization of the bedouin women's role in their communities. The bedouin women built their houses, not the men. They decided on the size and the shape, on the color and the design. The home of the Bedouin woman is the extension of their individual identity.

In my work the ‘ منزل ’ is the representation of the moment; we pause in life, to recollect, re-strategize or rest. Before we move on again, life is a rhythm, up and down, working and resting.

It is in this pause, the attention is drawn toward HOME. By bringing the outside inside, I wanted to draw the attention to the bigger home... planet earth. Why don’t we treat the earth the way we treat our home? I want the viewer to pause and rethink, ‘what is home?’ In our modern life, we are isolated from our surrounding nature and we are destroying it faster than we think.

This tent is fully handmade from nature, 100% Egyptian Cotton, Natural Dye with Turmeric, Safflower, red onion skins and pomegranate skins. The tent was decorated by hand embroidery.