August 29, 2006

A panoramic view


My site photoshopped. My house is a short distance past the white mosque on the right via the paved road. Areas of my site have different names; I’ll call them neighborhoods. Starting on the left of the photo to the mosque is the area called Taznight, where my host family lives. After the mosque, one enters Mdafa or “high zoea” where I live and which continues until a paved road splits and heads towards the river and continues south into the Sahara. From Mdafa to the southern edge of town is Harash or “low zoea.” More confusing is my attempts to figure out area boundaries across the river, where Labkhata, Rwabah, and Ouled Khlifa are located. The river is called Oued El Hay (the living river) and extends more than 100 km.

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