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30 December 2008 Random Photos from the Arab World In one of our first posting for the MegaSowar blog, we asked several photographers from around the Arab World to send in journalistic style photos that they have taken in the past couple of weeks. Here's a selection of what's happening in the region.
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Twin brothers Mohammad and Omar Kabbani (a.k.a. Mijrim Kaleim and Carbonn respectively), who founded the graffiti art group ASHEKMAN Soldiers, stand in front of their artwork on a wall in Hazmieh, Lebanon. Tanya Traboulsi |
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A little girl smiles as she sits in her house in Gaza. Her mother in the background is burning clothes instead of wood as a result of the shortage in cooking gas, electricity and food supplies. Eman Mohammed |
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A group of women head to work near the Dead Sea in Jordan. It is quite common for women to work in the labor market, where they get paid nearly 5 times less than what men would get paid. Eyad Obeid |
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A group of individuals cross the street during a busy day at Alexandria Beach in Egypt. Although there is a safer pedestrian crossing nearby, they decided to cross the risky road anyway. Mohamad Chehimi |
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Muslims circle around the Kaaba as part of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Moutaz Salem |
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Katibe 5, a Palestinian hip-hop group, gather around in the Bourj el Barajne Palestinian refugee camp located South of Beirut. Tanya Traboulsi |
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A
Palestinian man wearing a traditional “keffiyeh” strolls
in downtown Amman. Hassan
Bushnaq |
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Children feed some sheep before being sacrificed during Eid Al Adha in Halfaouine, Tunisia. Sophia Baraket |
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The STOMP dance group performs in Cairo, Egypt. Yasmine Adel |
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Zeid Hamdan, founder of the former Lebanese band "Soapkills,” poses with his guitar in a Luna Park in Beirut. Tanya Traboulsi |
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