caravansaries

Moving on, I admired the fabric vendor with his tired eyes, leather skin and rough hands, his tiny space nestled into the row of shops along the ancient market, his cornucopia of textiles neatly displayed in sheaths, glittering with the same silver and golden luster as the ancient caravansaries of the Silk Road.

Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East, Rajai Hakki 2011

Moving on, I admired the fabric vendor with his tired eyes, leather skin and rough hands, his tiny space nestled into the row of shops along the ancient market, his cornucopia of textiles neatly displayed in sheaths, glittering with the same silver and golden luster as the ancient caravansaries of the Silk Road.

Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East, Rajai Hakki 2011

Moving on, I admired the fabric vendor with his tired eyes, leather skin and rough hands, his tiny space nestled into the row of shops along the ancient market, his cornucopia of textiles neatly displayed in sheaths, glittering with the same silver and golden luster as the ancient caravansaries of the Silk Road.

Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East, Rajai Hakki 2011

Moving on, I admired the fabric vendor with his tired eyes, leather skin and rough hands, his tiny space nestled into the row of shops along the ancient market, his cornucopia of textiles neatly displayed in sheaths, glittering with the same silver and golden luster as the ancient caravansaries of the Silk Road.

Rajai Hakki: An Arab-American Iraq War Veteran Returns to the Middle East, Rajai Hakki 2011

Below the cliffs, the riverfront was probably lined with the merchants' booths and caravansaries, although these temporary structures have long since decayed to dust, leaving the majestic stone structures that anchored this new society.

Buddha of the Material World Michael FitzGerald 2011

In ancient times, Greece had its resorts and mineral and hot springs, England had its inns, and the Middle East had both its caravansaries and its khans.

What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

In ancient times, Greece had its resorts and mineral and hot springs, England had its inns, and the Middle East had both its caravansaries and its khans.

What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

That is except for caravansaries, which are a cross between castles and hotels designed to protect merchants on the silk road.

Eric Lurio: Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue -- Part Five 2009

And then these series of intentional vegetated outposts become like a constellation of caravansaries, something which the next truckload of migrants can follow, or keep adding to.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

And then these series of intentional vegetated outposts become like a constellation of caravansaries, something which the next truckload of migrants can follow, or keep adding to.

The geography of displacement 2007