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@molowey

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Construction management professional and amateur photographer. Lived many years in the desert of Eastern Province, KSA. Also, resided in Kuwait in the 1980's.

California, USA
Joined April 2009
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AbuJack
7 years
1978. Abdulhadi Alsy'ari with two of his sons & AbuJack in their desert encampment north of Fazran, Saudi Arabia. Abdulhadi turned to AbuJack & wondered why that camera on the oil barrel was making a strange sound (the automatic timer was set by AbuJack.) #KSA #bedouin
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AbuJack and baby Jack visited Kuwait Towers in 1987. #kuwait
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4 years
1978, Abqaiq, KSA. AbuJack and a friend. (Daughter of Aramco manager.)
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6 years
Arriving from KSA on vacation, AbuJack met his mother at San Francisco airport in 1978. (A Saudi gentleman on the flight helped me with my ghutra and egal before we landed.) #KSA
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1978. Abdulhadi Alsy'ari with two of his sons & AbuJack in their desert encampment north of Fazran, Saudi Arabia. Abdulhadi turned to AbuJack & wondered why that camera on the oil barrel was making a strange sound (the automatic timer was set by AbuJack.) #KSA #bedouin
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7 years
Petrol station, Qatif, Saudi Arabia. 2007.
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6 years
Gateway to Jubail, Saudi Arabia in 1978.
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7 years
Football pitch at Tarut Island, Saudi Arabia during high tide. #Football #soccer
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3 years
Thanks to those requesting to follow my Instagram. My IG is for personal and family stuff. My Twitter is to express my love of the Arabian peninsula and its people.
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4 years
AbuJack and baby Jack. Wafra Kuwait, 1986. #kuwait
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4 years
Kuwait Towers. 1987. #Kuwait
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4 years
These handsome boys and their father welcomed AbuJack 1978. #Bedouin #Badawin #Bedu #KSA #Saudi
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7 years
High technology in 1987? #Kuwait
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4 years
A typical Bedouin encampment near Ain Dar. (Aerial photography by Mark Lowey ©1979) #SaudiArabia #KSA
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4 years
Fruit and vegetable souq, Kuwait City, 1987. #Kuwait
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Kuwait City in 1979. #kuwait
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4 years
1978. Two young women arrive by taxi to visit the Jebel Qara caves. Near Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia. #KSA #alahsa
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6 years
AbuJack met beautiful “Rima” yesterday in the Saudi desert. #KSA
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7 years
AbuJack's KSA Driver's License in 1978.
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4 years
1979: Danny, Nabhan (Saluki), Mabkhout, and AbuJack wish you a Happy Eid Al-Adha! #KSA #Bedouin
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7 years
1978: Abdulhadi Alsy'ari, famous Bedouin, prepared coffee and welcomed AbuJack to his tent. Near Fazran, Saudi Arabia. #Bedouin #KSA
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7 years
Classic Saudi Bedouin encampment in Eastern Province, between Ain Dar and Fazran. 1979 photo taken by AbuJack from an Aramco helicopter. Men's section on right, family area in middle, kitchen at left. When I visited my Bedouin friends, I always approached from the men's side.
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4 years
Happy Mother’s Day!
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4 years
A young friend helped AbuJack with his ghutra and egal. #KSA #Bedouin
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7 years
Unidentified Saudi family weekend camping at Qurayyah Beach in 1978. #old_saudi @ksaoldphoto
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4 years
Kuwait City’s old Souq was quiet on a Friday morning in 1987. #kuwait
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5 years
Happy Saudi National Day! -AbuJack
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7 years
Shopping in Fahaheel, 1988. #kuwait
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7 years
Kuwait 1988, Wafra road. Your caption? My caption: "We're going for a walk; that tire had better be fixed by the time we get back!" #kuwait
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4 years
Sleeping man. Al Hofuf, 1978. #KSA
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6 years
Kuwait 1988, Wafra road. Your caption? My caption: "We're going for a walk; that tire had better be fixed by the time we get back!" #kuwait
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7 years
Typical Kuwait tea shop in Fahaeel in 1986. #Kuwait
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4 years
Saudi, 1978. Temporary driver’s license? #KSA
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4 years
The new Fahaheel Expressway, 1987. #kuwait
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8 years
KFC and Sizzler, Al-Khobar, KSA, 1978. @ksaoldphoto #old_saudi
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7 years
AbuJack with Saud bin Suhaim and Abdullah bin Saleh in 2015. Their fathers and grandfather with AbuJack in 1978. @AlsyariSuhaim @RYaramco
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6 years
AbuJack visited his old friend, Faleh, in 1978. North of Fazran, Saudi Arabia. #KSA #Bedouin #badawin
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4 years
Saudi hospitality - coffee and dates. #KSA #bedouin
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7 years
1978 street scene in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia. #KSA #Abqaiq #Buqaiq
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6 years
Ramadan Kareem!
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4 years
Al Boom restaurant, SAS hotel, Kuwait. 1986. #Kuwait
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7 years
Congratulations on the Saudi National Day.
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4 years
AbuJack and “baby” Jack (age 33) in 2020.
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4 years
Modern residential architecture in Kuwait City, 1986. #kuwait
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3 years
Just completed an incredible journey to meet this man in the Empty Quarter. #Saudi #KSA
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6 years
I made this drawing in a letter to my parents dated Nov. 6, 1978. It was Hajj time & pilgrims from Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq headed to Mecca. It was fascinating. I travelled the Abqaiq-Fazran road everyday to work. The vehicles had green flags. Note luggage on top of vehicles.
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Abu Jack with Faleh Al-Hajri and baby son B'dah in 1978. @ksaoldphoto #bedouin #old_saudi
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7 years
Jubail Industrial College, Saudi Arabia, on a rainy day.
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4 years
Abu Jack poses in an abandoned Aramco vehicle, a 1950 Ford pickup truck. December 1978. 25 km north of Fazran, KSA. #KSA #Saudi
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3 years
The beautiful minarets of the Dhahran Friday mosque. ⁦ @desertlover79
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AbuJack and his mother at San Francisco Airport in 1978.
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3 years
رمضان سعيد! Umm Jack and AbuJack wish you a happy Ramadan!
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3 years
Salem Turki Al Qahtani in 1962. His passion was falcon hunting on camelback. Stay tuned for the fascinating story of a traditional Saudi family as told through the eyes of his son. #KSA #bedouin
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4 years
Happy Saudi National Day from AbuJack!
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Sleeping man. Al-Hofuf, Saudi Arabia, 1978. #KSA
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Young Bedouins, 1978, north of Fazran. Identities unknown. @RYaramco @ksaoldphoto #bedouin
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4 years
Fruit Souq in Al Hofuf, 1978. #KSA (scanned again for clarity)
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4 years
Camel races. Ahmadi, Kuwait 1988 #Kuwait
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6 years
Al Ahsa camel market, 1978.
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4 years
1978. Aramco senior residential community, Ras Tanura. #KSA #Aramco #RasTanurah #RasTanura
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7 years
Abdulhadi Alsy'ari welcomes his friend AbuJack in 1978. Bedouin encampment near Fazran GOSP, Saudi Arabia. @RYaramco #Bedouin @desertlover79
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8 years
1978 with my friend Faleh Al-Hajri, baby son B'dah. He was welcoming guests with traditional coffee. #old_saudi @ksaoldphoto #bedouin
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4 years
Above Al Ula, KSA. AbuJack and Umm Jack. #saudi
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4 years
A donkey cart, known as a Gari, in the Al Hasa oasis. (AbuJack, ©1978) #KSA
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4 years
Shepherdess and her flock. Saudi Arabia. 1979. #KSA #Saudi #bedouin
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4 years
1978. Outdoor Souq in Al Hofuf. What was the location? #hofuf #alahsa
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5 years
41 years after I met this man in the desert. None of my Saudi friends could find his name until today! Bathan Mohammed Al Ulayan Al Marri. I met him in 1978 and he passed away, at age 90, in 2005. #ksa #Bedouin
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Young AbuJack visited Kuwait in 1979. #kuwait
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AbuJack in Kuwait in 1988. #kuwait
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6 years
Fahaheel, Kuwait, 1985.
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7 years
Modern day. The hands of my Saudi mother; widow of my old Bedouin friend. #Bedouin
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7 years
1979: Mother and baby graze near Fazran, Saudi Arabia after heavy rains. #KSA #Bedouin
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4 years
Al Khobar, 1978. (I tweeted this image before, but it was poor quality. This one has improved resolution.) #KSA
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Mangaf, Kuwait in 1986. #kuwait
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1979: AbuJack and Steve drove from Abqaiq to Kuwait taking Bedouin tracks to avoid the border control. Mafi mushkila! #bedouin #KSA #Kuwait
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Young AbuJack at the gate to Kuwait City. 1979. #kuwait
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4 years
AbuJack enjoyed dinner in Juneia, KSA. #KSA #bedouin
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7 years
A man and his dog, Mangaf Beach, Kuwait in 1988. #kuwait
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4 years
I drew this map in 1985. Employees of Kuwait Santa Fe Braun lived in the apartment buildings colored black. #kuwait
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8 years
December 1978. Abdulhadi Alsy'ari on left. Faleh Al-Hajri on right. They lived together like brothers. @bedouinconnection @RYaramco
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4 years
Ready to start. Camel race, Ahmadi, Kuwait 1988. #kuwait
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7 years
Jack bin Mark and neighbor friends in Mangaf, Kuwait, 1988. (One cool kid has a sling-shot.) #Kuwait
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4 years
Kuwait 1986. #KSA
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6 years
Rima and her owner’s very cool pick-up. #KSA
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4 years
80s architecture in Kuwait City. #kuwait #1986
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4 years
1978, Saudi Arabia. Pre-sunrise at the Ain Dar and Fazran oil and gas plants. #KSA #Bedouin #Saudi_Aramco
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6 years
AbuJack is looking forward to visiting these boys (now men) in March 2019. Photo: 1978. #Bedouins
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4 years
Quiet streets, Al Hofuf, 1978. #KSA #Alahsa #alhasa
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1978: Faleh Al Hajri looked AbuJack straight in the eyes. #Bedouin #KSA
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6 years
The Fazran oil and gas facility in 1978-79. AbuJack became lifelong friends with the Bedouin families living in the nearby encampments. #KSA #SaudiArabia #Saudi_Aramco
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5 years
AbuJack was welcomed by dear friends from the Qahtani-Hajri-Al Hamra family. #Bedouin #KSA
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5 years
Son and Father. The father (in dark jacket, 1978) was Bathan Mohammed al Ulayan Al Marri. The son is Bakait. Father was a famous water-well driller, responsible for creating over 50 wells in Eastern Province and Rub al Khali. #Bedoiun #KSA
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4 years
Dhow on the Arabian Gulf. 1979, Qatif, KSA. #KSA
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8 years
Al-Hofuf. 1978. @RYaramco
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6 years
Saudi National Day - Mabrouk!
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3 years
1987. Fahd and Mubarak Al Houli paid a visit to baby Jack in Kuwait. #KUWAIT
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7 years
1988 - children's garment souq, Kuwait City 🇰🇼 #kuwait
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7 years
Friendly locals in the back streets of Tarut Island, Saudi Arabia in 2007.
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4 years
1978 at the Housewares Souq in Al Hofuf. #KSA #alahsa
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4 years
Mangaf, Kuwait 1986. #kuwait
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