I knew a Sudanese trail boss named Muhammad al-Humri who wore a ruby on his finger. We called him Abu Dibla, Father of the Ring. This Egyptian mother, this Umm, seems to be wearing its twin on her right finger but her Bint, her daughter, is reaching out with her left as if to say, I want one too. Forty years later, I wonder if she is now wearing her mother’s ruby or if she has given it to a Bint of her own.
©David Melody