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Dear followers, to help build a richer understanding of our beautiful and interconnected SWANA region, I invite you to suggest posts you would like me to share from your own background and perspective. 🌹❤️

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A Palestinian reaper harvests wheat in the Boaz fields near Bethlehem. 1930s. 🇵🇸

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Afro-Palestinian resistance fighter, Mahmoud Jiddah, training in Hebron during the 1960’s. His father immigrated from Chad to Jerusalem in the 1920s.
Mahmoud was captured by the zionist occupation in 1968 and spent 17 years in a zionist torture facility. 🇵🇸🇹🇩

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A Bedouin with his rifle in northern Saudi Arabia, 1930s 🇸🇦

📷: Dame Freya Stark

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A young man rests atop the ruins of Palmyra, Syria. 1876 (Colorized).

📷: Felix Bonfils

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Abandoned railway lines between Latakia and Aleppo, Syria.

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

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Amazigh men performing ahwach at
Taragalte Festival

📷: (IG\jennybohemian)

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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

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

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Life in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan

📷:(azizmousa_\IG)

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

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

📷: Klaus Ferdinand

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