For the past week, marines have been fortifying positions across this dusty city of monochromatic tan brick.
Their designs are not primitive so much as calming, an antidote to this dusty, cacophonous city.
I was there in 1975 on a brief visit and recall a sad, dusty city.
Sanliurfa is a bustling, dusty city of 500,000 about 40 miles from Syria.
The pool was an oasis in this overpopulated, dusty, hot city and a place to relax all day if you so wished.
The drive through the hot, dusty, traffic-clogged city had been punctuated by stops for walks through various sites.
"I hope so," Sharrow said, staring toward the window where Miz was standing again, looking out over the dusty city.
An inch and a half is coming in from the north, the first significant storm in nearly a year for this dusty and parched city.
So that gets in the himalayas and a few famous dusty cities.
Living in the crowded, dusty, smoky city made her sick.