And we’re crunching over the bits and pieces of the machinery that stood half a century ago in the factory where the sheikh used to make cement blocks, the tabook. But there is no factory now, only open space and salt flats and memories, and his sons show me the rusted remnants. These scraps used to be the machine used to mould the blocks, and that flat cement barely visible under the sand was where they’d lay the bricks to dry.
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