Home and the world: The Sinai’s Gebeliya tribe
Sadia Shirazi writes about the transition from nomadic to fixed dwellings of the Gebeliya tribe in the Sinai Peninsula.
The Deborah J. Norden Fund 2003
Sadia Shirazi: “Home and the world: The Sinai’s Gebeliya tribe”
Hues of sandstone in St. Katherine during sunset. Credit: Sadia Shirazi.
The Deborah J. Norden Fund, a program of The Architectural League of New York, was established in 1995 in memory of architect and arts administrator Deborah Norden. The competition awards up to $5,000 annually in travel grants to students and recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies.
“Home and the world: The Sinai’s Gebeliya tribe”
In 2003, the Architectural League awarded one grant to Sadia Shirazi. Over the last forty years, the Gebeliya, a Bedouin tribe of the Sinai Peninsula, have shifted their residential unit from nomadic to fixed dwelling. Shirazi travelled to Sinai to study the effect of this shift on the construction, materiality, and divisions of public and private space in the living spaces of the Gebeliya.
Since her trip to Sinai, Sadia has worked with the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and written about architecture and urbanism in Egypt for Bidoun magazine. She is currently working on her masters of architecture thesis, which will be based on her research in the Sinai.
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