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A Mozabite from Ghardaïa, "businessman". The Mozabite is a cunning trader, a fox in everything that concerns money. Trade is the essential driving force of the Mozabite state. - Algeria - 1966

In the cool interior of a house in Ghardaïa, an Arab woman weaves a carpet. Mzab carpets are well known throughout the Sahara for their elegant, colourful geometry, especially those from Beni-Isguen, the holy city of the Mzabites. - Algeria - 1966