BAGHAPUL, Afghanistan — With their Y-shaped divining rods and uncanny sense of the desert, the nomads of the Rigestan could find water almost anywhere. But for three years the winds have brought ...

Architectural team Dina Haddadin and Rasem Kamal created the Nomad Pavilion, a structure that is both a desert shelter and a water tower. Inspired by indigenous Bedouin tents, the pavilion uses ...

From desert nomad to soccer mom: Bay Area author herded goats in Somalia, escaped civil war As a young girl in Somalia, Shugri Said Salh was taught to survive in a perilous, parched landscape ...

Shugri Said Salh recounts her journey from goat- and camel-herding nomad in Somalia to nurse and mom of three in California in her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert.

As the last person in her family to learn and live the desert nomad ways of her Somali culture, Shugri Salh spent pivotal years of her youth under the guidance, love, and protection of her “a… ...

The Desert Nomad House in Tucson, Ariz., includes three separate structures that look out onto different views of the desert. Jeff Goldberg/ESTO. Exhibit; High Design in the Desert.