SWANA Insights

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Abandoned railway lines between Latakia and Aleppo, Syria.

Legendary Lebanese singer Fairouz in front of the ancient ruins of Baalbek, Lebanon 🇱🇧

Amazigh men performing ahwach at Taragalte Festival 📷: (IG\jennybohemian)

Desert nomads pause their travels to offer prayers in the Sahara. Algeria, 1916(Colorized)

A woman in traditional Palestinian garb gazes upon Jerusalem from her balcony, 1929 (Colorized). 🇵🇸

A Yemeni man reading the Quran in Al-Saleh Mosque, Sana’a 🇾🇪

Moroccan soldiers deployed to protect civilians in Mitrovica during the Kosova War greet the local Albanian imam, 1999 🇲🇦🇽🇰

A group of Arab officers from the French colonial army on the steps of a building in La Panne, Belgium. The image reflects the involvement of colonial officers in the war effort and the use of colonial troops in World War I propaganda.

Ghassan Kanafani, the Palestinian writer, activist, and martyr with his daughter Laila. 1967. 🇵🇸

“A rest outside the mosque”… An oil on canvas painting by Rudolf Christian Eugen Bendemann (1851-1884), Düsseldorf’s School of Painting, 1882.

A young sheikh, one of the sons of the ruler of Ajman, takes part in a race down a sand dune. Photographed during the Trucial state period and published in 1989, UAE. 📷: Ronald Codrai

Palestinian fighters of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade presenting carnations to Catholic nuns at the Catholic Church of Gaza, 2006. (Gaza Press/Shutterstock)

Life in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan 📷:(azizmousa_\IG)

Moroccan worshippers on their way to pray at the local mosque, 1980's

A Bedouin wife helps trim her husband’s fingernails, Al-Murrah, Qatar 1959 📷: Klaus Ferdinand

The renowned Arab poets Nizar Qabbani and Mahmoud Darwish greeting each other in Baghdad, 1986.

Hunting the Arabian Oryx from the backs of camels. (Illustration from the French travel magazine Le Tour du Monde)

Pope John Paul VI's Pilgrimage to the Jordan River where Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Baptist, 1964 (Colorized) 🇯🇴

A marsh Arab from southern Iraq photographed with his ‘Fala’; an ancient Sumerian spear generally consisting of 3-7 iron prongs and a wooden shaft reaching lengths over 3 metres. This tool is typically used for fishing in the marshes, but has also been utilized in warfare.

Stunning photos of blue, gold, and pink patterns covering the Nāsir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran. (hobopeeba/IG) The mosque was built in 1888, during the Turkic Qajar era, and is also known as the “Pink Mosque.”