Mabarak

Half length portrait of Mabarak, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the region between Harub village and Sabya.Half length portrait of Mabarak, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the region between Harub village and Sabya.Mabarak was one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, a teenage boy from the Bani Sharfa tribe of Wadi al Ahsabah. He accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on his 1946 journey through the Hejaz region.

Photographs of Mabarak