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Tales of the Bedouin – Part XXIII: The Remarkable Life of Bdah Al Hajri – Part 3
In this series, Mark Lowey, known as “Abu Jack” (Father of Jack) to his Saudi friends, tells the story of Bdah Al Hajri, whom he first encountered in the desert as a baby in 1979. Reunited in 2013, Abu Jack and Bdah have become close friends. In 1986, Bdah was seven years old, and his two older sisters were already attending elementary school at Salasil. It was time for Bdah to begin his formal education.
Tales of the Bedouin – Part XXVIII: Old Ain Dar
In this piece, Mark Lowey describes a day spent with Quriyan Mohammed Al Hajri touring his boyhood home village, Old Ain Dar, in 2021. At Quriyan’s farm in Junayah, I awakened at first light. I knew Quriyan would have been up for at least an hour already.
1960s Christmas Scenes from Sun and Flare
The pleasures of the holiday season, as celebrated in Aramco camps throughout the 1960s, are depicted here in photographs from the Arabian Sun & Flare.
Mark Lowey, Known by his Saudi Friends as Abu Jack, Offers Rare Images of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province During the 1970s
From San Francisco, the hippie heartland of 1970s American counterculture, to Abqaiq, Aramco’s gated community and the largest oil facility in Saudi Arabia — Mark Lowey’s love of adventure took him on a journey that later defined his life.
Arabian Return Chapter XXV: After Second Vacation - A New Job
January isn't the best time of the year to travel through Europe, but we didn't have much choice, so we started our third return back to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the 16th, 1977 from Dallas, Texas. By the time the plane arrived in New York, it was snowing so much we had to circle over the airport for an hour again before landing.
First Trip to the K.S.A.: Chapter V
All the celebrating wasn’t over yet. To start the New Year off right, we went to a dinner party for only “people from Texas” on January 1. The host & hostess were one of Oran’s bosses and his wife from Bandera, Texas, Walt & Daisy Mayfield.
Tunisia's Center of Ceramics
In Nabeul, even the butcher shops are decorated with multicolored tiles. A hugely oversized, colorfully glazed jar rises in the center of the city's main traffic circle, making it clear that Nabeul is all about pottery. Walk the streets and you'll think you've stumbled into an outlet mall devoted to pottery and ceramics.
APPENDIX Italians in Eastern Province.
We were lucky enough to get in contact with Enzo Amendola in 1994. He was part of that early group of Italians from Eritrea.
Rev. Eugene L. Watrin, SJ
Rev. Eugene L. Watrin, SJ, 83, Jesuit missionary to Nepal, pioneer in educational and social work there, founder of a Jesuit college, celebrated athlete, friend of the late King Birendra, and beloved "bicycle priest", died February 29, 2004 at B & B Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer.
Warren F. Menicke
Warren Menicke passed away on December 5th in Marble Falls, TX after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife Marlene; his children Joseph (Cash), Peter, Warren (Ducey), Alison (Lisa) and Richard; and numerous in-laws, grandchildren, and relatives.
Foster A. McEdward
Foster A. McEdward, “Mac” passed away peacefully in his home in Middlebury, VT on Thursday, January 17th surrounded by his family. After a long, full life of adventure, Mac’s passing brings much awaited relief to his extended bout of neuralgia from the shingles late in life.
Rosemary Berka Stoelzel
Rosemary Berka Stoelzel, 80 years old, was called to heaven on July 7, 2019. She passed peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family. Rosemary was born in 1939 in Colo, Iowa to Frederick and Muriel Berka.
Marion Wier DeFord
Marion Wier Rich DeFord, age 93, passed away peacefully at home on January 2, 2021, surrounded by family. She was born November 6, 1927 in San Angelo, Texas to John L. Wier and Mabel Alice Perkins Wier.
Fred Douglas Watts
Fred Douglas “Doug” Watts, of Seale, passed away at home, surrounded by his loving family, on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at age 80. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 27, 2022, at the Living Water Church in Groesbeck (308 N. Leon St.), with Pastor George Ibarra officiating. Burial will follow in New Hope Cemetery.
Kathryn Stroup Bennett
Kathryn Stroup Bennett, 96, of Scottsdale, AZ, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, June 12, 2022. Her life was marked by a long and loving marriage, many adventurous travels, and a love of home and family.
Elsa Ellen Metting
Following a long, full life, our mother passed on May 16, 2023. Elsa Ellen (Pekkanen) Metting arrived on August 7, 1924, in Poland, Ohio, the seventh of eight children born to Edwin and Alena (Namie) Pekkanen who emigrated from Finland in the 19th century.
The King’s Man: Before Oil - Part I
When Ibn Saud scaled the walls of Riyadh in 1902, it began his celebrated passage to becoming King of Saudi Arabia. This story briefly describes the years when he recovered his heritage and oil was on the horizon.
Brilliant, Positive, and Funny: Remembering Cliff Peterson
I was deeply saddened at news today of the death of Cliff Peterson back in April due to complications from advanced Parkinson’s Disease. I never met Cliff in person, but he became an important online friend during my first year in Saudi—the loneliest year when I was away from my family and often out left exploring by myself.
The Camel Races of Kuwait – A Photo Essay
On a blustery, overcast day in early Spring 1988, a friend and I spent our Friday day-off work at the camel races on the outskirts of Al Ahmadi, near the small residential community for employees of the Kuwait Oil Company.
A Desert Trek to Thaj
Quriyan M. Al Hajri’s knowledge of the desert is legendary. So, when the retired Aramco well sites supervisor invited me to join him for a five-day, 120-kilometer desert trek from his home near Ain Dar up to his birthplace near the historic village of Thaj, I was intrigued.