I think it's about time for another ME/NA picture thread. Please share pretty (or not so pretty) pictures of the ME/NA. These can be your own pictures, or pictures you've found online, in magazines, or anywhere else a pictures of the ME/NA might show up.

Also, please exercise caution when posting pictures that have you/your SO in it. Pictures can (and have) been taken and used offsite for malicious purposes.

Great idea, rahma! I don't know if I've posted this one before, but I love it because it's so eerie. (I wasn't intending for it to come out blurry, but I think that's what makes it so cool!)

At Djemma el Fna:

nice picture and will be nice to see others, i just have a few i would want put but not sure how to get them on here anyway

Jordanian blogger Black Iris posted pictures of his jaunt around the Balad. Definately click and browse, as I'm only putting two up here.






Also from Black Iris, a history and pictures of The Citadel (and the Souq)





Definately browse through the rest of his blog, cuz he's got lots of picture posts.

Very poignant, MK.

Get an account at Photobucket, upload your pictures, and it will provide a little link you can copy and paste into the messages here.

Rabat:

thanks may try

These are some of my pictures from Cairo, December 2003/January 2004:



In Khan Khalili, the tourist marketplace. A man carrying bread.




Kitty in Khan Khalili. Kitties are all over Cairo, and I wanted to huggle them all, even the mangy dirty ones (after I had taken them home and given them a bath, if my husband had let me, lol)




The pyramids at Giza. I think most people have the impression that they're off in the middle of the desert, and you have to ride camels to get to them, but Giza (suburb/twin city of Cairo) butts up right next to them. Giza is the place we stayed the first time I was in Cairo, 2 miles from the pyramids. I love it and miss it.




Minaret at Al Azhar, beautiful masjid.

This is in Baalbeck, Lebanon. It was a beautiful day and we got the most beautiful pictures.




This a pictures of my family's village in Lebanon. Very green, peaceful and refreshing.

Hassan II mosque in Casablanca, Morocco

Dangit!!!! I keep making the pic smaller and smaller and it just won't freakin' upload!

Wow this brings back so many memories! I remember walking down these steps when I was in Jordan a few times a week to get bread from the bakery below. I miss Jordan.

Fabulous photos !!

The Middle East is really a photographer's dream -- everywhere you look, there is a Kodak moment waiting to be snapped. And the light is fantastic.

Jenn your "blur" photo is cool. It reminds me of one I have where my camera did a similar thing... let me try to dig it up.

I really love seeing all these places I hope to visit one day ! Keep 'em coming !!



-MK

i can't see the village for the trees


is it a bmp file extension? if so, use something like mspaint to convert it to a jpg, which will result in a much smaller file sizewise.

The Veil as Resistance, a photo essay of Egyptian women from Speaking of Faith.

That's actually the mountain in the village. When I took that picture I was in the village and standing on the rooftop of my husbands family's house. Sorry to confuse you Charles.

nope, i keep downsizing in irfanview w/ jpg extension.... it's a shame cuz it's really a beautiful site! I took it all the way down to 75x56pixels - still no go!

Try uploading it in photobucket, which will automatically resize it to a decent level for most message boards.

are you trying to upload it to here? it could be you can't, as you have to periodically clean out your attachments on this site. you have only so much room for that.


oh ok, i was about to dig out a magnifying glass to see if i could see anything other than countryside

Hey! that was it... too many attachments in my account! Cleaned up and here it is:

HASSAN II MOSQUE IN CASABLANCA, MOROCCO!

The Cable Cars in Junya (I think)



Pictures of the Beirut Ocean

glad to be of help

here it is in photobucket

A real Oasis in the desert- and HUGE at that- goes on for miles. Best time to visit? The date festival in october. Morocco- between Er-Rachidia and Erfoud

This one is for all the cat lovers in VJ- there do seem to be a LOT!

These are brothers sleeping in the stall of their owner at the central market in Casa.

Meat all hangin' n stuff during Eid



A few of my favorites of Al Ahzar mosque (the last one I made into a poster and am waiting to frame it and put it up in my bedroom)








sphynx



View of Cairo from the pyramids

From my first Morocco trip:


The roof tops at sunset in the Marrakech Kasbah


Baby donkey in the Sahara who would only let me touch him!


Inside the Hassan II mosque - windows facing the ocean

israel is beautiful! i love this thread


arab market in jerusalem


jerusalem


tel aviv

These are some of my own pics from my trip to Jordan

The view from my uncles balcony in Jabal Amman

Fuhais, my home town (this pic was taken from the roof of my uncles house)

Fuhais, #2

Jerash, at the enterance

Jerash, an ancient church

Jerash, columns on the street

Jerash, stadium

Palestinian man turned back at checkpoint


Kristallnacht in Ramallah


Soldier and Palestinian family at checkpoint


The Wall at Abu Dis (Palestinian town just outside Jerusalem)


Palestinian man looking at his olive orchard, vandalized by settlers


Settler graffiti in Hebron (al Khalil) - "Kahane was right"


Settler graffiti in Hebron (al Khalil)


A soldier who wanted to confiscate my camera and film


Palestinian girl with house key from her family home taken in the Nakba

Mansaf!!! The national dish of Jordan...

(not my pic)

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Palestinian man turned back at checkpoint... etc


i thought this was to show the beauty and such of MENA. would you like me to start posting pictures of suicide bomb remains? of my boyfriends uncle beaten to a pulp after being kidnapped by palestinians?

im sure there are things that better represent ramallah than these. ive been, i know it has its beauty.

seriously, play nice

i was wondering if anyone else noticed this took a political turn

The first post requesting the pictures said:



The pictures WOM posted are a very real part of Palestinian life and to post only pretty pictures would be a misrepresentation of life there, IMO. You also are free to post whatever you choose.

While I agree with you to some extent about showing the beauty of MENA, there is an obvious reality to WOM's pictures. If you do a google search for photo's of Ramallah, all you will find is photos similar to these and worse. Maybe it would be better fitting to post photos of Ramallah before all the conflict began in the Middle East but where to find them, and do they represent what is left today? This is all that is left to show for the most part. Although these places are beautiful and always will be, they no longer hold the beauty they once did.

I don't see these photo's as being political and I don't even know why you are getting defensive about them. She didn't post anything that is not true or any remarks that are directed to anyone. Israel has also suffered indeed, but Israel still holds it beauty and always will because it has the resources to pick up and move on as do many other MENA countries that have been attacked by terrorists.

I'm getting a vision of the future...it's becoming clearer...wait...wait...

...I foresee that yet another one of my threads will be closed soon...

i wonder if you and others would be so quick to jump to my defense if i posted israeli suicide bombing victims first

Do you have anything worthy to offer or are you just going to add your lame side comments as usual?

im not saying her pictures arents truthful, im just saying they are political. you can always choose what to post.

i choose to show israels beauty, not its faults, which is def has. why cant WOM also choose to show ramallahs beauty? i know its there.

i agree with the last post. would you respond this way if i had shown israeli victems first? shes showing one side, does that mean i should show the other so we can fight about it?

i was simply asking her to be respectful. show your beauty, not the hatred for the other side

to answer your multi-part question: yes
i'm just curious, that's all.

eta: i'll take your answer as a no then.

From the Egypt flickr group

View of a mosque near the Autostrade from the Citadel

Sahn Pillars of the Muhammad Ali Mosque

Apartment Buildings in Zamalek

How is she not being respectful!!!!! Just because you don't agree with her photos, there are many that do. These photos show the only reality that is left for Palestine. You have a choice of which photos to show for Israel. You can show photos of damaged buildings from bombings as can I in Jordan, but the difference is we have alot more beauty to show. This is all that is left for them, do you not get that?

Charles I am going to try to be as patient with you as I can. No one in here has ever said Israel has not suffered, they most certainly have. However they have alot of beauty still, and they also have the resouces to recover. Jordan was attacked by suicide bombers as was Egypt, but they recovered because they have the resources. This is all that is left of Palestine, so should WOM show photos of things that no longer exist?

3 egyptian teenagers, looks to be near the pyramids. I picked it for their hijab style that's apparently all the rage in Cairo - multilayer shayalas. I think they're layering 3 or 4. I've heard that some girls are up to 5 or 6. I can only manage 2 without it getting too heavy and falling off my head




More Egyptian girls. I love the color.

From http://www.flickr.com/groups/egypt/




Cairo Evening - downtown by the Egyptian museum




Nile Ferry at Luxor




Food vendor - I loved to get food from the little carts. Probably not the healthiest thing in the world to do, but meh.

I think if any hatred is exposed by the pictures WOM posted, it is not her hatred for Israel, but the other way around.

Suicide bombings and kidnappings are deplorable. I absolutely condemn both. However, to compare these infrequent, heinous acts to the the injustices Palestinians face on a daily basis is shocking and I think it is exactly this attitude that results in the conflict never being solved.

JP, this is exactly what I'd say if my blood wasn't boiling right now. Thank you.

The Non-Touristy side of Cairo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixinalasidra.../in/pool-egypt/ - can't put the pic up here, but do click. This is a pervasive side to Cairo, a city I love dearly. Trash trash everywhere.

Family outside a mosque in Tanta - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixinalasidra.../in/pool-egypt/ - can't put this pic up either. My sweetie went to university in Tanta.




Peddler - ahh, I love and hate these guys. It's nice to have fresh fruit right outside your apartment, but on the other hand, do they really need to start yelling that they have fresh figs at 5 am?




Mosque of Ibn Tulun. It was being rennovated the last time I was there. I wonder if they've finished




Nubian girl

WOW ok I for one thought the pyramids were in the middle of the desert! How very strange to have that as your view from your house...who would have ever thunked it? LOL


Wendy






The pyramids at Giza. I think most people have the impression that they're off in the middle of the desert, and you have to ride camels to get to them, but Giza (suburb/twin city of Cairo) butts up right next to them. Giza is the place we stayed the first time I was in Cairo, 2 miles from the pyramids. I love it and miss it.




Minaret at Al Azhar, beautiful masjid.
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