Nour El Refai - Egyptian Photographer

Characters of Egypt, cutting across distances - in some cases exceeding 1,500km - tribal representatives from Siwa and Farafra in the Western Desert, from Northern and Southern Sinai and from Aswan converged last year onto Wadi El Gemal where members of the Al-Bashariya and Al-Ababda tribes, inhabitants of the Southern and Eastern deserts, eagerly awaited the encounter. Under the roof of one tent, for the first time in history, 120 tribesmen from across the country shared stories, music, poetry, food, arts, sciences and problems, as well as participated in a variety of entertaining games, sportive events and camel races.