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Desert Hearts
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Nightwood
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Desert Gold
Carries a strong pull into film through identity and South Asia.
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Music from Saharan Cellphones
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Amassakoul
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Desert Flower
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Desert Hearts
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Desert Gold
1910s
Desert Gold is a 1913 book by Zane Grey, linked to a wider international field and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Amassakoul
2000s
Tuareg desert rock. Electric guitars in the Sahara, rebellion and exile encoded in rhythm and sand.
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Dune
1960s
A boy becomes the messiah of a desert planet. Ecology, religion, and the dangers of hero worship.
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Sahara Électrique
2010s
Tuareg desert blues electrified. Saharan rock from the world's most unlikely guitar band.
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Desert Flower
Desert Flower is a 2010 film from France, Germany, and Austria, associated with Sherry Hormann. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Nightwood
"At Nightwood's center are the love affairs of Robin Vote - a character based on Barnes's lover, Thelma Wood. Robin marries Felix Volkbein, an eccentric aristocrat, whom she meets in Paris, and whom she abandons years later for the American Nora Flood. But Nora cannot contain Robin, either, and Robin in turn deserts...
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Music 2010s
Music from Saharan Cellphones
Desert guitar and synth music passed via Bluetooth across the Sahara. The future of folk.
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Film 1980s
Paris, Texas
A man walks out of the desert and tries to reconnect with his family. Ry Cooder's guitar and American vastness.
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Desert Flower
book by Waris Dirie
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Music 2020s
Afrique Victime
Tuareg guitar meets psychedelic rock. Desert blues electrified for the 21st century.