Living under the Crescent Moon

– Domestic Culture in the Arab World –

“Living under the Crescent Moon demonstrates the diversity of domestic lifestyles to be found from Morocco to Syria and the Arab Peninsula: from the nomadic tents of the Tuareg or Bedouins to Moroccan casbahs; from the grand courtyard houses in cities such as Marrakesh, Damascus or Cairo, to buildings by twentieth-century architects. A series of essays and evocative pictures by leading photographers detail functional and fascinating examples of residential architecture alongside solutions for daily tasks and everyday objects.”

Contents:
Forewords
General Map
Living in a ‘house of hair’- The differing lifestyles of nomads in the Arab world
Rural houses in the Arbab world
A country luxury – A trip into everyday life in the Arab world
Housing and living traditions in the Arab-Islamic world – Underlying philosphy, social patterns and spatial structures
Essential to urban living – An infrastructure for utilities, sanitation and quality of life
From Hassan Fathy to downtown Dubai – Arab domestic culture and modernism
Catalogue
Photographic credits
Bibliography
Acknowledgements