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Lebanon: Cry Palestine
By Zann Huang
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, slides on 27 June 2010
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In Lebanon, a small but densely populated country, there are 12 official camps with about 230,000 refugees. Compared with their counterparts in neighboring Syria and Jordan, Palestinians in Lebanon has the highest percentage of refugees who are living in abject poverty and who are registered with UNRWA’s “special hardship” program.
Shatila camp, located in Beirut’s “belt [...]

Palestine: Refugees, 62 Years In Diaspora
By Mohammed Abdulkadir
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, slides on 22 June 2010
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On 18/07/1948 David Ben-Gurion (the first Prime Minister in Israel) wrote in his diary: “We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return…. The old will die and the young will forget.”  Today, 62 years after the Nakba (The 1948 Palestinian exodus) and despite the on-going terror and ethnic cleansing, the [...]

Turkey: Istanbul, Crossroad Of Cultures
By Delmi Alvarez
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, slides on 21 May 2010
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Istanbul was an ongoing issue in my travels. I have to admit that it has been a pleasant surprise, even though in this the first time, were a few days which I dedicated to photographing.
Istanbul, I was impressed by the warm hospitality of the Turks not to mention a tourist [...]

Yemen: Fight For Basic Health
By Jean-Baptiste Lopez
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, slides on 12 October 2009
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Leaving a painful civil war in 1994, Yemen remains the poorest country in the Middle East. Both the political and social environment is extremely fragile and continues to hamper economic growth, which results in a partial absorption of the vital needs of populations. The poorest are the first victims of a health system that covers [...]

Unveiling Women Behind Veils
By Laura El-Tantawy
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, features, greater middle east on 10 September 2009
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All the way from India to the Middle East, women have traditionally adorned the veil, a sheer fabric to cover their hair and sometimes their face. While some wear it for purely traditional purposes, others will don it as a rite of passage when a girl grows from childhood to adulthood, as do women in [...]

Iraq: Local Police Taking Over
By Sebastian Meyer
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, news & global, slides on 16 June 2009
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Iraq’s Kirkuk region, roughly 250 km / 150 miles north of Bagdad, is a major oil production site. Since the American led invasion of 2003, it has had it’s share of suicide attacks and car bombings. Insurgents have been know to target local police forces, seen as collaborators with the US Military.
By 2011 all American [...]