January 08, 2010
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Inch
by inch, Barack Obama is moving mountains
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Colorful
photos of slithering snakes
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March 16, 2009
The Last Keffiyeh Factory in Hebron
French journalist Benoit Faiveley visits the last Palestinian Keffiyeh (the iconic headscarf made famous by Yasser Arafat) factory in Hebron on the West Bank.
Faced with Israeli military checkpoints, the complexity of exporting goods from the West Bank and now competition from Chinese Keffiyeh manufacturers, the factory might not outlive its 76-year-old owner
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Also: Chicago in the Negev desert
Un-related: The Serenity Prayer. (I didn’t realize it wasn’t written by Kurt Vonnegut)
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February 01, 2009
Postage Stamps of the Yellow Fleet
In June of 1967, a convoy of 14 freighters was underway in the Suez Canal, northbound, when war broke out between Israel and Egypt. The canal was officially closed and the ships had to anchor in the Great Bitter Lake. Within three days it became clear that the canal was going to be blockaded for an indefinite amont of time due to the deliberate sinking of vessels. The hostilities entered history books as the Six-Day-War. For the ships it meant almost eight years of forced isolation, imprisoned in the Great Bitter Lake.
During this ordeal, the crew on the ships produced their own postal stamps. (From Metafilter)
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Bauhaus architecture in Israel
Arabic versions of packaging of some consumer products. Taken 1/09 in Dubai
Un-related: An organizer from pre-communist Russia (1918)
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December 17, 2008
Syrian lingerie
Just off the crowded central market in Old Damascus, a sales assistant called Mahmoud is giving me my first introduction into an unusual Syrian speciality - musical knickers.
The garments come in many different shapes and colours, and play little tunes - or other extraneous noises like telephone ringtones - all made by small electronic devices hidden in the lining.
Singing underwear isn't the only item on sale at the "Fatin Shop for Ladies Indoor Clothing", where Mahmoud is proudly showing off his product lines...
Exploring the exotic world of Syrian lingerie (with video)
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A beautiful story about the first Palestinian Soccer field built in the town of Al Ram. (From LA Times)
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May 19, 2008
The Giant Makeup mines of Peru
A former Lebanese taxi finds a new life as a pampered summer car, and other Mercedes-Benz Type 180 restoration stories
Humpty Dumpty in Jerusalem by Pat Condell
Salt evaporation ponds in Peru, in Bulgaria and in Alviso, California on Google Maps. (From Digg)
Many maps from the Middle East
6 better ways of crossing the borders than in the Middle East (YouTube)
Engineers and computer scientists at Purdue University have created the first scientifically accurate visualization of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11
(No time to blog tonight. Sorry)
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April 08, 2008
Arab Beauties
Arab Beauties on flickr (Showing some legs)
Life Goes On In Tehran. (Scroll sideways)
Ayman al Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda #2 takes your requests
Professor Yoo is teaching International Civil Litigation. The class must be very civil
5 years of Bearing Witness
"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war." Bush’s War on Frontline
(Photo above from Lonely Planet blog)
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March 09, 2008
Saudi Investment in Afghanistan
"Several years ago I got a hold of a very rare portfolio with original 12 by 18" photographs, charts, diagrams, blueprints and renderings for Saudi Investment in Afghanistan..."
Also by the same flickr member, Kenny Irwin, Pamphlets dropped in Afghanistan during the 2001 war and Crystals from Pakistan & Afghanistan
Dubek cigarette ad from the sixties. (One of over 300 Nostalgic YouTube clips from Israel)
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February 16, 2008
Al-Aqsa
Stamps issued by The Palestinian Authority. Not including the illegal & fake stamps of Pope John Paul II & Benedict XVI. More about the postal history of the PNA on wikipedia
Dome of the rock and other famous landmarks in LEGO by Arthur Gugick. (From Idleworm)
The Band's Visit, a movie about an Egyptian musical group meant to be on a goodwill tour in Israel
Savoring Damascus, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
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January 27, 2008
Send a message
For 30 euros, you can have a Palestinian artist spray your message on “The Wall”. The symbol of separation becomes a conduit of communication. (From Crimes and Corruption of the new world order)
In search of the best hummus in the world
The Carmelit, the underground train in Haifa
Haj Pilgrimage in 1953 from National Geographic Magazine
Experts can agree on one thing
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January 04, 2008
Iranian fashion
More art on public switch boxes. Also, Drain covers
Early photography from Palestine. (Click on "Collections", then on "מצגת")
Latest style in Iran (Safe for work)
Dubai night life (YT dancing)
10 Israeli Defense Force Dreidels. (From Neatorama)
Typography by Oded Ezer
Re-post: Syrian Calligraphy by Mouneer El Shaarani
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November 13, 2007
Go around twice if you’re happy
Dubai’s changing landscape
The Ottoman Empire
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September 06, 2007
Freemasonry in Egypt
Freemasonry in Egypt - Is it still around?
Roman Era Funerary Portrait Painting. (From Spooky Librarians)
A Palestinian family portrait from 1900
A slideshow of the Palm rising, one of the many grand projects in Dubai
Young Israelis blast Gaza strip with vegetables
Today I went swimming with my wife
Jerusalem Rocks, an international music event in support of peace and unity. (From Blond 2.0)
Pocket books called "Stalags" were practically the only pornography available in the conservative Israeli society of the early 1960s. Though it was claimed that the Stalags were translated from English, they were actually created and written by Israelis. Israel’s dirty little secret
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August 02, 2007
“Yankees Go Home (& Take Me With You)”
Catastrophic Space: an interactive tour of Beirut
I Wanna Be Like Osama, from “Jihad the Musical”
“Yankees Go Home (& Take Me With You)” - Faces of Iran by Paolo Woods
Yea, who cares about dead Iraqis?...
Neturei Karta is a small Haredi Jewish group who oppose Zionism and call for a peaceful dismantling of the State of Israel, in the belief that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah
Israeli photographers Eyal Bartov and Dubi Roman
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March 26, 2007
Dome of the Rock
Ads from Israeli newspapers (Ca. 1967. From PCL Linkdump)
The Face to Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides
Jewish and Palestinian land exchange
The construction boom that is changing The New Mecca
Portraits of Violence: The Gangs of Port Moresby and Suicide Bombers in Gaza
The Giza Archives Project. (From World History Blog)
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February 25, 2007
One Voice
From One voice
Peacemaker video game
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