ME/NA pictures

[cbd2cai 0]

Fresh figs is the only excusable reason for yelling outside my house at 5am

TEEEEEEEEN !!!! TEEEEEEEEEEEEEN !!!!!! YALLA TEEEEEEEEEN MEN BALADI !!!!!!!

God bless 'em.

So THAT's what they were saying. Thanks for the translation WoM!!

Well, it was figs, then OK . . . the one I hated was the guys with the gas bottles walking down the street banging on them . . . starting early in the morning and going on all day!!

Man, I hate when the quotes get all screwy!!!

Edited January 16, 2007 by cbd2cai

[Alex+R 0]

You guys thank you for this beautiful thread. I have learned so much about the MENA area just from these pictures! For the first time I kind of even want to go there!

Yes naming the pic Kristallnacht was not in the best taste IMO, but let's just ignore it so everyone can see the beauty (and sometimes beauty is not a landscape or a piece of architecture) of this region for better or for worse.

Alex, the naming of the pic refers to the period known as Kristallnacht in Ramallah. It was a dark and terrible time for those people. It is a political name for sure, but I suspect if you read of the horrors of the kristallnacht in Ramallah in 2002 and how the word stood by like they did in Germany of the 1930s. it will make some sense (even if you disagree with the use of such a term).

Well said

Ok, I take back my saying it was in poor taste to name the pic that, if that's what they actually call the time. From this side of the fence we don't hear about stuff like that, although we do hear about the events for sure.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

Couldn't find a picture of figs, but I'm pretty sure that's what the guy was yelling about. Dur!

My favorite street vendors are the sweets carts. We had the best one on the street near our first apartment. We loved it so much that we'd travel all the way from dokki to giza just to get some sweets from him, even though there were dozens of sweet shops in dokki.

Here are some piccies of Cairo from someone's geocities site, including a tea vendor

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Forest/3...tCairoMisc.html

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

You guys thank you for this beautiful thread. I have learned so much about the MENA area just from these pictures! For the first time I kind of even want to go there!

Yes naming the pic Kristallnacht was not in the best taste IMO, but let's just ignore it so everyone can see the beauty (and sometimes beauty is not a landscape or a piece of architecture) of this region for better or for worse.

Alex, the naming of the pic refers to the period known as Kristallnacht in Ramallah. It was a dark and terrible time for those people. It is a political name for sure, but I suspect if you read of the horrors of the kristallnacht in Ramallah in 2002 and how the word stood by like they did in Germany of the 1930s. it will make some sense (even if you disagree with the use of such a term).

Well said

Ok, I take back my saying it was in poor taste to name the pic that, if that's what they actually call the time. From this side of the fence we don't hear about stuff like that, although we do hear about the events for sure.

No worries, Alex. I know you are a very bright, very open-minded lady with a passion for speaking out on issues of human rights, truth and justice.

You are always a welcome voice here in ME/NA, and I also want you to know that you would be a very welcome and very honored guest in the West Bank also. Palestine sends you flowers

Salam/shalom

-MK

[~ Karima ~ 0]

Sidi Bouzid

Essaouira

El Jadida

Marrakesh

Edited January 16, 2007 by carshel

[MHandMB 0]

Nevermind, that didn't work as well as I thought it would....

Edited January 16, 2007 by MHandMB

[cbd2cai 0]

I really need to plan a trip to Morocco . . . .forget Egypt!! Hehehehe . . . well, you know how it goes! So many places I want to visit . . . and work doesn't always send me where I want to go .

[noura 0]

I really need to plan a trip to Morocco . . . .forget Egypt!! Hehehehe . . . well, you know how it goes! So many places I want to visit . . . and work doesn't always send me where I want to go .

hey Catherine... let us know if you want a "guided tour" of Maroc - glad to go back asap!!!! I miss our home in Maroc and I can't wait to go back!!!!!!!

gorgeous shots, Carrie!

Edited January 16, 2007 by noura

[~ Karima ~ 0]

Here's a few more various places....

[UmmSqueakster 54]

If possible, could people put little explanations of what the pictures show. It helps me understand better Shokran!

[maryandatif 0]

Ozoud in Morocco....my son overlooking the falls in 2005

[~Jackie~ 30]

All these pictures are affecting me! I want to go to Jordan and I want to go now. How to explain this to hubby?

Jackie

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

All these pictures are affecting me! I want to go to Jordan and I want to go now. How to explain this to hubby?

Jackie

Show him the pictures.

[cbd2cai 0]

I really need to plan a trip to Morocco . . . .forget Egypt!! Hehehehe . . . well, you know how it goes! So many places I want to visit . . . and work doesn't always send me where I want to go .

hey Catherine... let us know if you want a "guided tour" of Maroc - glad to go back asap!!!! I miss our home in Maroc and I can't wait to go back!!!!!!!

gorgeous shots, Carrie!

Gee, thanks, Noura!! How about in May?? hehehe . . . well, i know that is rather soon for Said . . . he's got a lot to do here before he goes to visit home.

Also, I forgot to say "gorgeous shots, Carrie"

Everyone that is sharing makes me want to travel off somewhere. . . and yes, Egypt too!! I'm looking at my very own pix now and it makes me want to go sooooooooooooooo bad!

[~ Karima ~ 0]

gorgeous shots, Carrie!

Thanks Noura!

If possible, could people put little explanations of what the pictures show. It helps me understand better Shokran!

Sorry Rahma, I will remember to do that next time.

Also, I forgot to say "gorgeous shots, Carrie"

Thanks Catherine! I can't wait to go back too!