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 [...]
Took a weekend trip to Florida for APAD’s Geekfest. On my way back to Atlanta, after driving past the ocean for a while, I couldn’t resist it’s call any longer. I pulled my car over and jumped in. It was beautiful. It was serene. My only company, a lone fisherman and the hundreds of motorists [...]
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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