But do these oases for nomads actually play the social role of third places?
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Nor, nowadays, are they the colourful nomads of yore, drawing decorated caravans down dusty roads.
In Central Asia, the Turkic nomads met up with the Muslim and Persian world.
While other related groups were semi-nomadic and formed coastal communities, the Moken considered themselves true nomads of the sea.
The community participation has been a very distinctive feature of Teaching the Nomads in the Wild programme.
Their core clientele used to be the so-called "grey nomads" - retirees looking to augment their pensions.
Blending Persian, Greek, and even Chinese influences, the nomads' golden ornaments, dating back to the 7th century B.
Their triumph was extraordinary, since most Arabs were not city dwellers but nomads.
Even where disparate Gypsy groups gather together, as in Italian camps for nomads, mutual antagonisms quickly drive them apart.
In the name of the tsar, they demanded pelts as yasak (tribute) from reindeer herders, steppes nomads and hunter-gatherers.
Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online.
They spent much of their time like nomads traveling between the two countries.
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They also offer a variation, known as an alachigh, which is similar to a yurt but used by nomads in northern Iran.
However, it has also spotted a new opportunity in catering to nomads.
Arab nomads moved with them, trying to escape the encroaching wastelands.
For example, the conflict in neighbouring Somalia means that armed nomads often cross the border and move into the region to graze their cattle.
In order to adapt to the special lifestyle of the nomads and their social and economic background, RLEK employed a series of innovative measures.
From ancient times, Mongolian nomads derived their livelihood from mother nature and veneration for the environment is deeply rooted in our culture and history.
Nomads in Kazakhstan exploit a centuries-old method of storing camel milk in places lacking electricity, processing fresh milk into fermented milk, Shubat, a local delicacy.
The making of Kyrgyz felt carpets is inseparably linked to the everyday life of nomads, who used felt carpets to warm and decorate their homes.
Urban nomads have started appearing only in the past few years.
That has helped drive a great exodus of traditional nomads from the countryside and the growth of the most extraordinary shanty town I have ever seen.
And indeed many nomads are frequent flyers, for example, which is why airlines such as JetBlue, American Airlines and Continental Airlines are now introducing in-flight Wi-Fi.
Architects, property developers and urban planners are changing their thinking about buildings and cities to accommodate the new habits of the nomads that dwell in them.
In a shrinking world where air travel and the Web have made real and virtual nomads of us, major environmental and health problems have also become globe-trotters.
For the Tuareg and Wodaabe nomads of the Sahara desert it is a fleeting chance to enjoy the pleasures of communal living before leaving with their herds.
Scottish explorer Gordon Laing survived an attack by Tuareg nomads en route to Timbuktu, only to discover on arrival that its wealth had greatly diminished since its heyday.
Teaching the Nomads in the Wild was a need-based intervention and unlike many similar literacy programmes which target children, RLEK decided to focus the literacy programme on adults.
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