LATITUDE: 31°13'24"N / LONGITUDE: 34°24'0"E, October 10, 2011. Piles of discarded plastic refuse burning after the harvest in the outskirts of the Mivtaḥim (lit., “safe havens”) moshav. Established on January 7, 1947, by Haʽoved HaTzioni (the Zionist Youth settlement movement founded in 1936; lit., “The Zionist Worker”), the moshav took its name from Isaiah 32:18: “And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.” During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, residents evacuated Mivtaḥim and joined with residents of Nitzanīm (lit., “flower buds”) to found a new kibbutz. All that remains today of the original settlement is a security building. This region of the southern border with Gaza is densely crowded with moshavim. The space falls within the former Palestinian village and pasturelands of al-Ksar/al-Najamāt, of the Tarabīn tribe., from the series Desert Bloom Artist: Fazal Sheikh (American, born 1965)