In warm sunshine, and cool breezes off the hills the-sights and sounds of Christendom's greatest feast.

In the West, said one writer, people walk on carpets in the East, he continued, people live on them.

Out of hardship, loneliness and the need to survive… a code of conduct—intricate, strict and generous.

From country to country, from region to region ... ceramic signposts along the routes of culture.

Long hours and hard work; good eatin' and lots to do...that's life aboard Aramco's Mobile Drilling Platform.

Amid the special green of Ireland, in a quiet Dublin suburb… one of the world's great repositories of ancient Arab art.