Hamad bin Saadna

Portrait of Hamad bin Saadna and two Rashid tribesmen sitting beside a cooking fire at the encampment of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad.Portrait of Hamad bin Saadna and two Rashid tribesmen sitting beside a cooking fire at the encampment of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad.Hamad bin Saadna (known by Wilfred Thesiger as Hamad bin Hanna), was a tribesman of the Bayt Hanna lineage of Rashid Bedouin. A cousin of Muhammad al Auf, Hamad bin Saadna happened upon the party near Khaba well, in Saudi Arabia, during Thesiger's First Empty Quarter Crossing in 1946–7. Hamad joined Thesiger's party for a short time, guiding the group from Khaba well across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and into Wadi al 'Ayn in Oman.

Photographs of Hamad bin Saadna