The desert’s rich heritage is reflected in its architecture, art, music, and traditions ... with huge shifting sand dunes ...

Desert X 2025 installation view of Sarah Meyohas ... technology like sundials and pays homage to 20th-century land art. Each mirrored panel, crafted using computer algorithms for light ...

We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...

Wearing a helmet and strapped securely into his four-wheel-drive, Abdelilah al-Rabea tore off across the Saudi desert, kicking up clouds of sand as a crowd of hundreds cheered him on. Every year ...