Seated portrait of one of ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

Seated portrait of one of ... Images of Sheikh ZayedSeated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconers at Al Muwaiji Fort. A man in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a patterned ghutra (headscarf) kneels on the ground in front of a fort wall. He is holding a falcon and a camel stick. The falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff) on the falconer's arm. In the background a tree grows in front of the walls of Al Muwaiji fort. At the time this photograph was taken, Al Muwaiji fort was

View of men and women dancing after a circumcision ceremony

View of five of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions standing in a plain in the Al Ain/Buraimi oasis

The nearest boom flies three sails

and its tail feathers standing straight up

He is pouring water out of a beaten metal bowl into a metal pot in front of him

the party's saluki hunting dog

View of Shakhbut bin Sultan's fort at Abu Dhabi

Seated group portrait of seven men

a retainer to the Emir of Najran

Four Gelugpa monks blowing ceremonial horns on the roof of Kundeling monastery

A large stone building is visible in the background behind the crowd

A tall house painted black and white with ornamental stonework on the roof