فأكل الجمل وعلى كل ما قامت.
He ate the camel and all that carried.
To eat someone out of house and home.
– From the delightful Apricots Tomorrow by Primrose Arnander and Ashkhain Skipwith
To compete with the donkeys and elephants in Washington DC and the Arabian horses of Dubai, Bahrain has created a caravan of camels to enliven Block 338 and the Seef Mall Entrance.
In a bid to encourage the local artists’ paints to beautify the community, the government sponsored a camel painting contest. Personally I liked number 23.
If you have always wanted a camel but were put off by having to feed it, then these are the camels for you. They are up for auction.
Although real Bedouins will wonder what is the use of such a camel, for the city dweller, they are a perfect reminder of their ancestral past.
Tales of Dragons, Rabbits and Roosters 