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Post your favorite Middle East picture here, and give us a couple sentences about it. You can obviously link to any picture you find online, and it'd also be really cool if it was a picture you took while you were traveling in the Middle East!

To post a picture, click on the little picture icon on top of the reply window (between the envelope and the left & right pointy arrows on the right-hand side) and link to its URL - that means you've got to have it posted somewhere online already, whether that's your blog or a photo hosting site. To get the URL of the specific image, you can either click on the image to get a page with just that picture, or you can right-click on it, select "Properties" and copy & paste the URL listed there.

Then, tell us a little bit about why that picture is so meaningful to you:

• Where is it?
  
• Did you take it?
  
• Why is the picture special - what does it remind you of?
  
• If you didn't take it, does it inspire you?

And anything else you'd like to share! Go for it, and have fun!!

My uncle is quite the intrepid traveler, and every Christmas when he comes to visit he brings a slideshow of his latest trip. Often, however, we request repeats of some of his old adventures - and his trip to Jordan is one of our favorites. It's his shots of Petra where I really lose any sense of time... I can just imagine the first glimpse of the city, coming slowly through the canyon until you finally saw this...

Ciao,
Jessie

These are Kurdish girls working in a carpet factory in Turkey.
I took this photo in 2001. Some fellow travelers were exploring some old rocks where something of importance happened long ago, and rather than climb stairs in the hot, hot sun I stayed behind with the driver. I heard some voices coming from an old building and went to investigate.

I took this picture while travelling in Iran during March, 2005. I was on a boat going from Queshm Island to Bandar Abbas. My friend and I missed the regularly scheduled ferry runs so we had to hitch a ride with locals that were smuggling goods from Queshm (via Dubai) to mainland Iran. The driver was a friendly Kurdish man, the other fellow from Iraq and the lady dressed in local style clothing with the facemask is from Bandar Abbas. There was also another lady and a 13 year old Afghani boy who all were packing large bags filled with assorted goods and clothing.
Iranian police boats patrolled the area and it seems these smugglers played a nightly cat and mouse "game" with the cops. Unfortunately, that night we lost and the boat was boarded by police and we were escorted to Bandar Abbas. It was a bit of a nervous time especially because we were not really told anything. However, as it turned out once we landed, everyone was permitted to scramble off the boat with their goods. The best thing was that the smugglers were all very friendly and in that short trip we almost all bonded in a strange way. Once on land, we all went our own ways after briefing sharings of smiles and hand shakes. My only regret is that I never did learn what, if anything, happened to the boat driver.

Hope the pic works this time!

These are fishing boats on the Al Cornish (waterfront) in Doha, Qatar. The boats are still handmade using only basic tools like they were hundreds of years ago. On cool nights I used to take walks on the Al Cornish and snap a picture every now and then, I had to watch out not to accidentally take a picture of any local women or I would have to run away from the cops. I took this picture because I thought the bicycle next to the boat and the different colored ropes and flags made a cool shot.

Does this look like the Middle East? This is a pool on a naature walk on Tel Dan in Northern Israel. The nature walk reminded me of walking the Applachian Trail, just not nearly as rigorous. To go from this to Jerusalem was a little different. One small example of the magic of Israel.

Ok, I'll try again .

Downtown Amman, Jordan from my room

I have so many, but since Petra's already been posted...


Taken in the south theatre of Jerash, Jordan. Just one of those odd moments of encountering a bagpipe band in the middle east.

The Negev in March

I saw these guys wrestling in the casbah in Sousse, Tunisia.
They're just so cute I thought everyone should get the chance to see them.

This is one of my favourite Middle East shots. It's of my fiancee Wendy looking out over Cairo from the Mohammed Ali mosque in the old citadel. I love the contrast between her bright blue clothes and the drabness of the city on an overcast day.

I hope these aren't too big.

Tooba, a Bedouin woman I met in Petra.


My guide in Petra. Read the sign.


Wadi Rum in Jordan.


Ruins at Baalbeck in Lebanon. For reference, the guy in the photo is six feet tall.

Very Tourist photo of Me sitting on a Camel in front of Petra.

Hanging out in front of Saddam Hussein Statues, some where in Baghdad

Some where in Baghdad-Iraq shopping for Rugs for the ¨Dude¨Jeff Lebowski

Various Stamps currently in my Passport, Traveled so much I had to get Extensions put in it.

Yum Enjoying my BLT Subway Sandwich on Saddam Hussein´s former Parade Ground, on CNN highlights sometimes there is a piece that shows Saddam shooting a shotgun on a balacony this parade area is where that takes place.

Check it out Visa is almost everywhere top one NBK (National Bank of Kuwait Jordan) Bottom Trade Bank of Iraq