Sailors. Lebanon, 1960s. 🇱🇧
📷: René Burri

Egyptian Architecture, Cairo 🧡
📷: Blue Cairo | IG

Casablanca, Morocco, 1950s. 🇲🇦

Beirut, Lebanon, 1982 🇱🇧
📷: Steve McCurry | Magnum Photos

Turkish girl with her dog, Turkey, 1988. 🇹🇷

A Lebanese fighter plays the piano in a house his forces have recently taken over during the 1975-90 civil war. 🇱🇧

American girls pose with a Palestinian boy in Jerusalem, circa 1910.

Iraq, 1950s.

Rock Carved Relief of Lulubi King Tardunni.

Darband-i Belula is also known as Darband-i Hurin or Sheikhan relief.

🍂2000 BC, Kurdistan, Iraq

☀️⛰️🐐Mesopotamia History

U.S. president John F. Kennedy and King Saud with his daughter, Princess Dalal, 1962.

Gymnastics at the Police Academy in Egypt, 1906. 🇪🇬

Sahet el Shouhada, Beirut, Lebanon, 1966.  🇱🇧

The incredibly good-looking King Abdullah II of Jordan 🇯🇴 at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1980-81.

Kuwait University, 1967. 🇰🇼

🇸🇦 Bedouin Mother with her baby, Saudi Arabia, 1948.

Ph. Ilo Battigeli

Studio Portrait of a Kurdish Woman in Traditional Dress, Sulaymaniah, 1955.

📷: Photo Rafiq St.

'الناس ما همَّها ظروفكْ
كود الذي يحزن لغمّكْ
وإن شلت حملك على كتوفكْ
بتموت ما احدٍ ترى يمّكْ.'
'Your fate in life is yours alone,
No one cares about your woes and moans,
But bear not your burden all on your own,
You'll depart this world, unknown and alone.'
— Prince Badr bin…

Turkish girl with her dog, Turkey, 1988. 🇹🇷

Great Mosque, Bursa, Turkey, 1955.
📷: Marc Riboud

The spiral minaret in Samarra, Iraq, 1977.