With so many of our members traveling to the ME/NA recently, I've been feeling a little nostolgic for my time in Egypt. And, when I feel nostolgic, I like to look at pictures (thanks to my husband who insisted on taking pictures every 3 seconds when we were in Egypt together). So, I thought, why not create a thread that is filled with beautiful pictures of the Middle East and North Africa? These can be your own personal photos or ones you come across online.

Happy posting

Great idea! I can't wait to get home and pick some good ones!

Cairo, القاهرة‎ , al-Qāhirah, the victorious, Umm el Dunya, Mother of the World.

Travellers tell that there is nothing on the face of the earth fairer than Cairo.
He who has not seen Cairo has not seen the world.
It dust is gold; its Nile is a wonder;
its women are like the black-eyed virgins of paradise,
its houses are palaces;
its air is temperate;
its odour surpassing that of aloe-wood, and cheering the heart;
and how could Cairo be otherwise, when she is the Mother of the World?
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Tale of the Jewish physician


While the dust seems like, well, dust to me, and the houses were quite dilapidated, and the air was smotheringly hot, I do agree that if you haven't seen Cairo, you ain't seen nothing yet. Officially a city of 15 million, millions more expand the city out from all sides, coming in from the country side and blending into the fabric that makes this city unique.


Where the modern:


Midan Tahrir, aka Liberation Square, a bustling mash of roads in the middle of the city


Meets the medival:


Al Azhar, oldest university in the world


And the ancient:





And quite often overlaps:


A view of the pyramids from Giza


Ancient statute of Ramses near the Ramses train station




Although the city can quite often be overwhelming




It's a place I hope to return to often

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my pix from jordan anyone recognize??? yeah the one with the man taking the picture...thats my husband

I have pictures, check out my gallery

Great Great idea Rahma I have like 1000 photos of and my husband in Cairo and Alexandria and Sharm Al sheik..

But can you tell me how do youadd them in your post the way you do?

Gosh....I have way too many from both times I was in Egypt, but here are a few.












(I was sneaking in pics while I was in the museum! )


Nile River


SHOPPING!!!!

Ain El Fouara Fountain, with a Roman sculpture of a women, is located in the main square of Setif.



Ancient Roman Bath, located in Setif.



Roman Ruins at Dejamila, located right outside of setif.



Ben Badis Mosque in the snow.



Another Mosque in Setif.



My future brother-in-law, Foudil, working on a patient. Notice, no gloves and no mask. (I scolded him for this)

Let's play - "Where was it taken?"!

[color=#993399] This one I also think is in Marrakech...is it near the Ben Yusef Medersa in another building that is now an art gallery? Not sure on this...

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wow OMG I have never seen a denstist work on his patient without a glove or mask!!!



The photos are unbelievably "beautiful" I never knew that Algrie are beautiful like this I must reconsider visiting it oneday.

Right on the first two, Amera!

That last one was in Rabat, huh? At Hassan II? looks like the fountains where we took some pics too... so beautiful there!
Noura

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Gosh....I have way too many from both times I was in Egypt, but here are a few.


(I was sneaking in pics while I was in the museum! )


LOL Aymerlu, that comment about sneaking in pics made me laugh. Brings back memories when I went to Eygpt in '94 walking around Cairo Museum and having to cover up my flash, wasn't too good at that and got told to put camera away, anyhow got a great pic of tut's head although flash went off, so I darted off and left some other tourist to take the rap when I see the security man coming lol.

edited to add... my quote thingy didn't work lol

Great pics everyone

Yacine's aunt had emergency surgery ... the doctor dropped the instrument on the floor and then picked it up and continued to operate.. needless to say she suffered a terrible peritonieum infection...

The picture with this heading

Roman Ruins at Dejamila, located right outside of setif.


That picture is breath taking. What a beautiful spot.

There are more pics of Dejamila in my album. It was an awesome place. It is an ancient roman city located on the side of a mountain. They said about 12,000 romans lived there at one time.

Meriem

hey was it named after me?? ::giggles::

Hey, thats right, Ms. Jamila!!!

[quote]Yacine's aunt had emergency surgery ... the doctor dropped the instrument on the floor and then picked it up and continued to operate.. needless to say she suffered a terrible peritonieum infection... [/quote] [/quote]



OMG well I am a doctor and I have never seen thatin my whole life even I was working in a hospital in Egypt with very low abilities But I can't imagine a doctor working in his patient's abdomen with the same instrument that was dropped what kind of man is this he must be a dump!!!!!!!!!

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Here's a nice view in suez...