
	Where results make sense

Topic: Umm al Samim

Related Topics

Arabian Desert

Jewish prayers

List of Jewish Prayers and Blessings

In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Umm al Samim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Umm al Samim (also known as the Umm as Samim) is a quicksand area on the eastern edge of the Rub al'khali desert of Saudi Arabia and is within the present-day Omani borders.
		The waters, such as they are, drain into this brackish low-lying closed basin area off the Omani mountains and the wadis of the Rub al'khali.
		The Al Samim (known locally as the 'Mother of Poisons' or the 'Mother of Worries') is a salt marsh with a solid-looking crust but can be very treacherous when broken through.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umm_al_Samim (143 words)

	OneWorld Magazine: Deserts
		Al Auf had decided to go on again after we had fed, and while Musallim and bin Kabina baked bread I asked him about his former journeys through these Sands.
		I knew that he was jealous of al Auf and always ready to disparage him, so unwisely I gibed, 'We should have got a long way if you had been our guide!' He swung round and answered angrily, 'You don't like the Bait Kathir, I know that you only like the Rashid.
		I knew that we could not go any farther to the east, for al Auf had told me that the quicksands of Umm al Samim were in that direction.
	www.oneworldmagazine.org /focus/deserts/thesstr2.htm (2921 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Zuhur, Asmahan's Secrets
		Umm Kulthum was born in Egypt's delta and learned to recite and sing religious songs from her father.
		Umm Kulthum consciously maintained a circumspect profile, emphasizing her modesty and the Arab-Islamic character of the Egyptian musical tradition.
		Umm Kulthum, whose career spanned five decades, followed her family's rules regarding the dress and comportment of a female, first dressing as a boy, and later appearing with her head covered appropriately.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exzuhasp.html (7945 words)

	GEOLOGIC AND HYDROLOGIC STUDIES OF SAUDI ARABIA UNDER THE SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR (SIR-C) SCIENCE PLAN
		Paleogene age Umm er Radhuma (Tu) cherty limestone and dolomite is characterized by severe karst development (k) throughout the Kingdom.
		The bright return from Umm as Samim is from the rough crusty salt-gypsum surface.
		Runoff from the mountains of Oman to the NE and highlands of the Huqf-Dhofar-Hadramaut arches to the east and south is funneled toward the Rub'al Khali and Umm as Samim where evaporation occurs.
	southport.jpl.nasa.gov /reports/finrpt/Dabbagh/dabbagh.htm (5622 words)

	Geology of Oman
		The region of Al Jabal al Akhdar is an anticline plunging gently westwards.
		Palaeozoic sediments of the Al Hajar supergroup form the northern flank of both the Al Jabal al Akhdar and the Seih Hatat anticlines.
		The largest is called Umm as Samim (Mother of Poisons) and lies on the edge of The Empty Quarter close to the border with Saudi Arabia.
	www.geocities.com /Baja/Canyon/3778/Oman/geology_of_oman.htm (2449 words)

	Bahrainguide · Feats of Clay
		The 'elder' amongst Bahrain's current generation of potters, 67-year-old Jaffer Mohammed Al Shughul recalls he got started when he was just five.
		By the time he turned 15, he was a master who could create anything from the shisha (Arabic water pipe) to the jahla (huge pots for boiling water that were used in the days before electricity).
		They would bring the clay from the Umm Al Guwaifa and Um Al Samim wadis (valleys) in Riffa.
	www.bahrainguide.org /BG3/pottery.html (1277 words)

	Print Article: A disciple of the desert and its people
		Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who has died aged 93, was the quintessential English explorer, and the last and greatest of that small band of travellers who sought out the secrets of the desert in the years before Arabia was transformed forever by the oil beneath her sands.
		Thesiger's reputation was established by two epic journeys he made in the 1940s across the Rub 'al Khali, or Empty Quarter, the most forbidding, least known and least penetrated region of Arabia.
		His motive for crossing it was not primarily to reap glory for himself, but to share the hardship of the life of the Bedu and to earn their comradeship.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/08/29/1062050676045.html (1799 words)

	Guide to Oman - Section 4: Travelling Outside Muscat
		Most treacherous of all are the salt flats, for example in Barr Al Hickman, known as "Sabkha", which consist of a thin crust of sun dried salt mud covering thick wet slimy salt mud underneath.
		The road to Quriyat and the turnoff to Hail Al Ghaf (82 kms from Muscat), is taken as described in the 2WD section.
		For Barr Al Hikman, the easiest way in is to turn left at the roundabout and go exactly 15 kms on the road to Filum.
	www.squ.edu.om /lan/GuideToOmanSec4.html (10573 words)

	Sevendeserts Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Umm Samim Locally known as the "Mother of Worries or Poison" we will circumvent the region which has some excellent geographic properties.
		Ras Al Jinz Turtle Beach, excellent opportunity to watch the turtles come ashore in the evening to lay their egg.
		The Empty Quarter is the largest sand desert in the world, encompassing the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, including southern Saudi Arabia, and areas of Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
	www.sevendeserts.com /viewpage.php?page_id=9 (547 words)

	Guide to Oman - Section 2: Living In Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However archaeologists are currently in the process of making exciting discoveries in the Ras Al Hadd area, with remains dating back to the fifth millennium BC and possibly even earlier.
		This area is called the "Batinah region" (stomach), which is seen as a contrast to the "backbone" of the Hajar mountains.
		The other area of salt flats is in the west on the edge of the Empty Quarter, and is called the "Umm Al-Samim"(mother of worries).
	www.squ.edu.om /lan/GuideToOmanSec2.html (3936 words)

	BirdLife - UAE. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The south and west of the country extending to the edge of the great Rub al Khali desert and the Umm al Samim basin, on the border with Oman, consists of high, wind-blowing sand-dunes interspersed with flat areas of stony plain and sabkhah.
		The summer population of Dromas ardeola is estimated at over 1.200 birds, shared between Abu al Abyadh and another colony on the island of Umm Amin, while the largest wintering population of over 500 birds is at Khor al Beidah.
		Populations regionally and, in the case of Dormas ardeola on Abu al Ahyadh and Phalucrocorax nigrogularis colony on Siniyah island, of international importance.
	www.birdlifemed.org /Contries/uae/uae.html (1545 words)

	BirdLife - Oman. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is an alluvial gravel plain lying inland between the Hajar al Gharbi mountains and the sand desert near the border with UAE on the west.
		The Umm as Samim is one such depression, a vast salt-lake when flooded and a treacherous sabkha (saline mudflat) at other times.
		The Ramlat al Wahaybah (Wahiba Sands) is an isolated sand sea bordering the east coast.
	www.birdlifemed.org /Contries/oman/oman.html (2591 words)

	Climb bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and
		The Umbrella man is a mysterious figure, still not conclusively identified, who appears in the Zapruder film of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
		Umm al-Fahm (Arabic أم الفحم, Hebrew אום אל-פחם) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel.
	www.elexi.de /en/c/cl/climb.html (301 words)

	Arabian Sands (Travel Library) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After a life which had already been filled with more adventure than most men would dream possible, in his early thirties Thesiger was offered the opportunity to live and work as locust control officer amongst the Bedhu of the Arabian peninsula in the late forties.
		In Arabian Sands he records his experiences in Arabia, twice crossing the Empty Quarter, travelling to the Quicksand of Umm al Samim and visiting Oman while it was still a medieval feudal kingdom.
		But more importantly he records his experience of living and travelling with the Bedu, before their culture was destroyed by the influx of oil money.
	aneas.net /travel/0140095144asin-arabian-sands-(travel-library)^639538^640084^640116.asp (1113 words)

	Outside Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Of firsts: first Westerner to live as an equal among the Bedouin of Arabia's Empty Quarter, first to set eyes on the quicksands of Umm al Samim, first to survive a trek among Ethiopia's Danakil.
		When the 36-year-old Thesiger arrived in 1946, seasoned by years of travel in North Africa and by his combat experience there during the Second World War, only two other Europeans had ever made inroads in that "bitter, desiccated land which knows nothing of gentleness or ease," as he describes it in Arabian Sands.
		To take one example Thesiger is particularly proud of: On his second crossing of the Quarter, in 1949, he became the first European to gaze upon the elusive and fabled quicksands of Umm al Samim.
	www.activetraveldirectory.com /magazine/1098/9810frontier.html (3260 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Umm as Samim (UaS) UaS 002 02/04/2001.........................21º19.4' 56º25.3' 1048 1 H5 S1 W2 18.3 17 1.4 52 Vr2 UaS 003 04/01/2001.........................21º19.2' 56º25.0' 991 1 H3.7 S1 W4 16.1 13.97 1.1 156 Vr5 Umm Ruaba...................................13'28' N., 31'13' E. Kordofan, Sudan Fell 1966, December 27, 1300-1400 hrs
		A complete individual, 1.4kg, and a broken fragment, 300g were recovered some 90 km N. of the town of Umm Ruaba.
		A complete, baseball-shaped stone (total weight ~ 3.7kg) with well-preserved fusion crust was found in 1996 by Said Rams Hatrush Al-Hairisi near sand dunes near the NW corner of Oman.
	www.arn-meteorites.com /MET_U.HTM (1565 words)

	Arabian Sands (Travel Library) \| Wilfred Thesiger \| The Spirit of the Desert Arabs
		After a life which had already been filled with more adventure than most men would dream possible, in his early thirties Thesiger was offered the opportunity to live and work as locust control officer amongst the Bedhu of the Arabian peninsula in the late forties.
		In Arabian Sands he records his experiences in Arabia, twice crossing the Empty Quarter, travelling to the Quicksand of Umm al Samim and visiting Oman while it was still a medieval feudal kingdom.
		But more importantly he records his experience of living and travelling with the Bedu, before their culture was destroyed by the influx of oil money.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/feiffbneii (1162 words)

	\|I--A [V:185b] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The press, which has been remarkably prolific in Cairo and Beirut ever since its first appearance there in the middle of the 19th century, has in a short space of time put into circulation stories of various lengths translated from French and English.
		The accuracy in tone of this book, written with finesse and modesty, explains its immediate success in Egypt and the rest of the world; one feels that the blind boy struggling in a world that is hostile or indifferent or stupid symbolises more than an individual destiny.
		It should not, however, be assumed that this type of novel is always attributable to an “indiscretion of youth.” Writers of considerable renown who are no longer adolescents have built their success upon this specialised genre, and their prolific output shows that they know how to pluck the string of emotion.
	www1.encislam.brill.nl /data/EncIslam/C3/COM-0523.html (6829 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands (PA1303)
		The natural beauty of the sand desert is striking with its reddish dunes, sculptured by the wind and stretching as far as the eye can see to the horizon.
		Brackish salt flats exist in some areas, the most famous being the quick sands of Umm al Samim.
		The stony basaltic desert of Harrat al Harrah, whose northern boundary borders Jordan and Iraq, was established in 1987 as Saudi Arabia’s first national reserve (12,150 km
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1303_full.html (2002 words)

	Product Information
		Just tell Al-Moazen where you live and it will adjust itself automatically to remind you in the right time and show you the Qibla direction at your location.
		It supports different methods of prayer time calculation including Umm Alqurra, North America, and others.
		It can remind to you with TWO Different AZAN sounds or without if you are in a meeting.
	shop.my-symbian.com /PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=695&javaDevice=60Series¤cy=PalmShop&catalog=0§ionId=0&productType=2&platformId=4&productId=102312 (345 words)

	Skyscraper - News Bites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The incidents, hitherto unreported, are separate from the suspicious deaths of seven Iraqis who were being held by British troops in the notorious Camp Bucca detention centre near the port of Umm Qasr, south of Basra.
		The threat of legal action comes as the conduct of British troops serving in southern Iraq is under intense scrutiny, with MPs and human rights lawyers demanding independent inquiries into the deaths at the prison camp as well as civilian fatalities in and around Basra.
		Lanny Schmidt of the University of Minnesota, Xenephon Verykios of the University of Patras and co-workers say their reactor is both efficient and cost-effective, and that it represents a major step towards a realistic "hydrogen economy".
	www.pocketbook.org /sky/news_bite_archive/news_bites120204-250204.htm (6716 words)

	Oerken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This road is not made for touristic purposes but for the oil business.
		At the top of the picture above Umm As Samim is left behind us.
		Umm As Samim is one of the biggest salt plains in the world.
	www.webzone.dk /oman/oman/English/oerken.htm (562 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands (PA1303) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elsewhere in the ecoregion are the famous quicksands of Umm al Samim, and an isolated sea of sand on the coast of Oman.
		The quicksands of Umm al Samim have reportedly swallowed groups of human travelers and whole flocks of goats!
		Although vegetation is extremely sparse in this ecoregion, and trees are limited to just a few areas, many animals make it their home.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1303.html (455 words)

	OAMC - Welcome to the Oman Airports Management Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Along the Saudi border Oman's dunes merge into those of the great sand sea of the Ruba'Al Khali, the Empty Quarter.
		There too is the sinister salt marsh of Umm As Samim, the "mother of poison".
		These dangerous quicksands were crossed 40 years ago by Wilfred Thesiger who wrote: "We moved forward a few feet at a time across the greasy surface.
	www.omanairports.com /home.asp?pid=11 (421 words)

	Arabian Boundary disputes, Archive Editions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Saudi Arabia still insists that Qaru and Umm al Maradim should be subject to some sort of common regime to reflect their position offshore of the former Neutral Zone.
		STATUS: the 1958 accord was the first maritime boundary delimitation to be agreed in the Gulf, recognising the Bu Saafah Shoal as a Saudi feature but specifying that all future revenue accruing from the associated oilfield would be shared in perpetuity.
		Khawr al Udaid recognised as Abu Dhabi territory, 1871, 1881 and 1906
	www.archiveeditions.co.uk /Leafcopy/400NEW.htm (2931 words)

	MES Accessions list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TITLE = al-Quran al-karim, wa-bi-hamishihi Tarjuman al-mustafid : wa-huwa al- tarjamah al-Jawiyah lil-tafsir al-musamma Anwar al-tanzil wa-asrar al-tawil / li -Nasir al-Din Abi Said Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Muhammad al-Shirazi al-Baydawi / bi-qalam Abd al-Rauf ibn Ali al-Fansuri al-Jawi.
		TITLE = al-Tuhfah al-Nabulusiyah fi al-rihlah al-Tarabulusiyah / talif Abd al- Ghani ibn Ismail al-Nabulusi ; haqqaqahu wa-qaddama lahu Hiribirt Busah.
		TITLE = Qurrat al-ayn bi-fatawa ulama al-Haramayn : yushtamilu ala Fatawa al- Allamah al-Imam al-Shaykh Husayn Ibrahim al-Maghribi Mufti al-Sadah al-Malikiyah bi-Makkah al-Mukarramah ; Fatawa al-Allamah al-Imam al-Shaykh Muhammad Salih al- Rais al-Zubayri / ashrafa ala tashihihi wa-dabata usulahu Muhammad Ali ibn Husayn al-Maliki.
	library.osu.edu /sites/mes/arabac61.htm (4244 words)

	Search Tuna Report for omani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Muscat Barka Fishmarket Nakhal Fort Rustaq and Al Hazm Forts Music and Dance at the Al Bustan Palace Dubai The World Summit Awards Dinner with a Prince Andy's diary of his trip to Oman and Dubai Gallery Homepage Copyright 2003-present by Andy Carvin....
		The hotel hosted a bedouin dinner in which we were treated to a feast of traditional Arab foods under bedouin tents, while a troupe of Omani performers sang and danced....
		Ghareeba Hamed Said Fox al Harsousi, like other Bedouin women of her country, wears the distinctive Omani burqa, or mask....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3761.html (1031 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His journey will begin at the legendary quicksands of Umm Al Samim “the mother of poisons”.
		Statement from HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal on his nomination as Ambassador to the US
		His Royal Highness Prince Saud Al Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs has today launched the Saudi Arabian Embassy’s Web Site in London
	www.mofa.gov.sa /Detail.asp?InSectionID=571&InNewsItemID=29936 (468 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Following some of Sir Wilfred Thesiger's ancient routes, we will drive in 4x4's from Southern Oman across the sand dunes of the Rub-Al-Khali (Empty Quarter) via GPS satellite navigation along the
		Saudi Arabian border, through the quick sands of Umm As Samim, cross into the United Arab Emirates at the Al Ain border and make a loop in the big dunes around the Liwa Oasis, ending this once in a lifetime experience in Dubai at a well deserved luxurious beach hotel.
		A considerable part of the expedition will be through virgin sand and not on tracks.
	www.turnertraveldubai.com /vx/sands/journy-profile.htm (135 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)