Major mode - Ecological anthropology and oasian natures: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia.

– A collection on HAL Open Archives:
https://hal.science/OASIS/

In this “oasis” section, I distinguish three large fieldworks in chronological order:
– The oases of the Maghreb,
– Siwa oasis and oases of the south, Dakhla and Khargain, Egypt,
– al-‘Ulā oasis in Saudi Arabia.

Portfolio

On the edge of a garden under renovation in the palm grove of the Siwa Oasis (Egypt, Libyan Desert), 17 November 2014, Vincent Battesti. © Vincent Battesti
Extract from my work on the agrobiodiversity of date palms in oases, adapted as a drawing for the exhibition Deserts (April 2025–April 2026) at the Jardin des Plantes, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. © Muséum national d’histoire naturelle
Relation d’un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d’Audjelah et de Maradèh, accompagnée de cartes géographiques et topographiques et de planches présentant les monuments de ces contrées, par M. J. R. Pacho. - Atlas (1827) Printed holdings of the Méjanes Library, Aix-en-Provence (France).
30/06/2009

The oases, seen by... former photographers
30/06/2009

The oases, seen by... recent photographers
13/03/2008

Short definition of the oasis

A short definition of the “oasis”, I wrote for an Encyclopedia.
09/06/2007

Workers of Oasian Palm Groves
09/02/2006

2006: International Year of Deserts and Desertification.

Desertification, in the words of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is one of the world’s most alarming processes of environmental degradation. The (…)
12/03/2005

Map of the studied oases in Sahara

The four main fieldworks in North Africa, where I made researches.