ARCHIVE ARABIA
The Date Palm: Living Traditions
Published source list

This file reproduces the source information currently published with the film.
It is not presented as a complete scholarly bibliography: several entries in
the production archive still require full publication details before they can
be issued in bibliographic form.

SOURCES

- Alain Cariou, on the decline, resistance and renewal of the oases of the United Arab Emirates and Oman
- Julien Charbonnier, on the mastery of irrigation time in the oases fed by the aflaj
- D. V. Johnson, J. M. Al-Khayri and S. M. Jain, on date production status and prospects, in Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization, Vol. 2
- Rashid Al-Yahyai and M. M. Khan, on the status and perspective of the date palm in Oman
- S. M. Aleid, J. M. Al-Khayri and A. M. Al-Bahrany, on the status and perspective of the date palm in Saudi Arabia
- M. A. Al-Khalifa and colleagues, on the status and perspective of the date palm in Bahrain
- Daniel Martin Varisco, on Islamic folk astronomy
- M. Sherif and colleagues, on water resources in the region (Water, 2021)
- S. Fragaszy and R. McDonnell, on groundwater governance in the Liwa oasis (IWMI)
- Abdullah S. Al-Ghafri and colleagues, on sustainability and equity in access to water in the aflaj of Oman
- Sterenn Le Maguer, on archaeological research and heritage in Oman as a factor of modernisation
- Manikandan and colleagues, on advancing date palm cultivation in the Arabian Peninsula
- On recent advances in date palm genomics (Frontiers in Genetics, 2022)
- Shahalam, on the aflaj systems of Oman
- Arabic-language heritage and press sources, listed in full in the production archive

PRIMARY SOURCES

- al-A'sha (Maymun ibn Qays), Diwan al-A'sha al-Kabir, ed. Muhammad Muhammad Husayn
- UNESCO and ICOMOS, the Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman, inscription of 2006
- UNESCO, al-Ahsa Oasis, an Evolving Cultural Landscape, inscription of 2018
- FAO, Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: the Al Ain and Liwa historical date-palm oases
- FAOSTAT and national statistical authorities of Saudi Arabia and Oman, date and agriculture data
- Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Qassim date-sector figures
- The Buraydah International Dates Festival, on the Qassim palm count and varieties
- National groundwater and salinisation assessments for Oman and the United Arab Emirates
- The national emblems of Saudi Arabia and Qatar

IMAGE SOURCES

Images and footage from the archive's own material, Wikimedia Commons, Pexels,
and iStock, under Creative Commons, Pexels, and standard licences; several
diagrams are house-authored. Full per-image credits appear at the end of the film.

Method: https://archivearabia.org/method.html
Film: https://archivearabia.org/film-date-palm-living-traditions.html