Camina Drummer

NEXT weekend's Outback Sufi Conference not only bring music, poetry and spiritual reflection to Broken Hill, but it's also an opportunity to revisit the legacy of Muslim cameleers and their history in the town.

One such cameleer was Bejah Dervish, a camel driver, explorer and devout Muslim, born in what is now Pakistan.

Mr Dervish first arrived in Australia in about 1890, later b...