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Abu Dhabi, Al Bateen area, present day UAE, 1948

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Photography by Eve Arnold (American, 1912-2012) UAE. Dubai. Wedding. 1971. “ Dancing in the desert took place daily for 3 weeks to celebrate the wedding.” In 1969 Arnold was to spend an important period of her life documenting the ruling family and life in the Arab States, which was to be published in 1971 under the title Behind The Veil. She died at the age of 99.

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Photography by  Clement C Dubai, Muhaisnah, UAE   

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Photography: “Portrait of an Arab falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan’s hunting party, riding a camel with a peregrine falcon in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A falconer wearing a thobe (long shirt) and a patterned ghutra (headscarf) sits astride a tall camel. He holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his left arm, and a camel stick in his right hand. The camel stands in profile facing towards the right. Beneath the camel’s feet the sand is dotted with small tufts of vegetation. In the distance beyond scattered fluffy clouds cross the sky”. United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Ain Region; Al Khatam between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949

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Photography: “Seated portrait of an Arab man, a falconer in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan’s hunting party, at a Manasir encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A man with a thick beard and curly hair sits in front of a pot of soup holding a long metal ladle. He wears a cartridge belt with leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt) and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head.” United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Ain Region; Al Khatam between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949

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Photography: “Profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Salim bin Kabina, standing on a rock outcrop in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin, stands on the left, leaning on a rifle. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin, stands on the right, carrying a rifle over his shoulder. Each man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt).” United Arab Emirates, Ras Al Khaimah Emirate; Ras Al Khaimah March-April, 1950

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Photography: “Portrait of a young Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and a man in Al Muwaiji near Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain. In the foreground a man and a baby sit on a carpet in sand. The baby is Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the son of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and at that time one year old. The man on the right, wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a checked ghutra (headscarf) topped with an ‘agal (head rope), is adjusting the baby’s thobe.” Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Ain Region; Al Ain City; Al Muwaiji, United Arab Emirates, April 6-9, 1949

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Baghdad in the 80s

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Syria, Damascus 2002-2006 our second home when we lived in Lebanon

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Sheikh Zayed Mosque by wesbran on Flickr.

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Pilgrims waiting outside a Iraqi Airways office to book tickets to Hajj in 1950.

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A poster showing a woman harvesting saffron crocuses.  Found on the wall of a saffron shop is Mashhad, Khorasan province, Iran.

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handicrafts uzbek  woman Sabokhat-oy embroiders scull-cap. Uzbekistan, Kokand city, 1931.

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Norlha

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Searching for an "oasis in Dubai" today brings up a laundry list of glamorous hotels and luxury apartments. But until 1961, the term had a more literal meaning in the city-state. There was no running fresh water in Dubai before that year, meaning that supplies had to be transported in barrels or containers like the one above, often on rudimentary carts.

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Portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan’s falconers sitting with a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. United Arab Emirates, 1949

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Yemen, October, 1988 @Alain Petit