For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A test boat made of flip-flops in Lamu. [Photo: Courtesy] There is a certain easiness to ...

Tucked away in a boatyard in Dubai’s historical shipbuilding quarter, “Jadaf” is a record breaker in the making. Nearly 90 meters long and 10 meters high, the wooden dhow modeled on traditional ...

For centuries, wooden boats called "dhows" have sailed Lamu's shores, transforming the far-flung island into an important port city. Courtesy of Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian ...

Dubai: One of the longest standing shipyards producing traditional wooden dhows along Dubai Creek is being forced to vacate its premises to make way for construction work. According to the general ...

KOZHIKODE: With the Covid-19 pandemic putting global leisure travel in turmoil, the traditional dhow building industry of Beypore that was manufacturing luxury vessels mostly for Arab millionaires is ...

Edathodi Sathyan returns to his workshop frustrated after a visit to his local electricity suppliers. The head carpenter’s work has been interrupted by power outages and whether he progresses with the ...

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Dubai, 26 June, 2006 - Dhow building is to continue on Dubai Creek. Dubai Properties announced today that its landmark leisure and tourism project, Culture Village, will feature a dockyard showcasing ...

There is a certain easiness to life that Lamu people have around them. First, it seems like they are in control of time, and ticking clocks do not do enough to make them rush around performing a ...

Tucked away in a boatyard in Dubai’s historical shipbuilding quarter, “Jadaf” is a record breaker in the making. Nearly 90 meters long and 10 meters high, the wooden dhow modeled on traditional ...