These pictures are from the Christian quarter, harbor and souk of Tyre, or Sur in Arabic, a city in southern Lebanon. Heralded for its maritime prominence in days of old, Lebanon’s Tyre fell into many hands as did the surrounding region succumbing to a series of conquerers and occupations. There is great history and modern [...]
Women worship in a Shia mosque in the Lebansese City of the Sun, Baalbek on Friday. The mosque, with its Iranian influenced architecture, is Shia and under the dominion of Hezbollah.
Tafadli, take one, insisted an older woman as she handed me a fresh fig and I entered the mosque. She was sitting at the entrance with [...]
I am leaving Lebanon in the next few days after spending the past two months here, pictures and anecdotes coming soon. Goodbyes are always bittersweet. Thank you for your good food, good views and hospitality.
A Bedouin woman in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon waves after a produce purchase is made. Many Bedouin girls and woman work [...]
In continuing the fashion of photographing dear friends, I now present you with Ibi, or Ibrahim Ali. Between balancing his internship at Human Rights Watch and trying to cut it as an actor in NYC, he’s still just a boy from Sana’a, and has been known from time to time to quit his hot kicks [...]
The President’s Mosque- Sana’a, Yemen (taken from inside the Pizza Hut)
Bab Al-Yemen, The Old City, Sana’a, Yemen
Well, I’m back in America and missing Yemen. It was a delightful trip. I met many kind-hearted people and was graciously taken into their homes and perfumed and force fed by them for hours. And although the country is [...]
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