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  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611196.jpg
  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611143.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611055.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    Perù-Ucayali-15.jpg
  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611217.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffee house (ahwa), a popular meeting place where chess and domino players can chat smoking sheesha, the traditional water pipe. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611202.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611191.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611176.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffee house (ahwa), a popular meeting place where chess and domino players can chat smoking sheesha, the traditional water pipe. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The owner of El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611135.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Shibam, desert storm. In the foreground men praying at sunset. Declared Unesco World Heritage, the old city of Shibam is called the "Manhattan of the desert" and is one of the most celebrated Arabic Islamic cities built in traditional style. A collection of nearly 500 skyscrapers built with mud bricks and 5-7 stores high.
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  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    em1011139.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    Perù-Ucayali-21.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    Perù-Ucayali-19.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. A waiter preparing shesha (water pipes). Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611132.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611130.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611108.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611242.jpg
  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611221.jpg
  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611213.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611206.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611200.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611173.jpg
  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611160.jpg
  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611145.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. A waiter preparing shesha (water pipes). Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611136.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611126.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611123.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611112.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611111.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611105.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611099.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    pantaleon y las visitadoras-11.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    pantaleon y las visitadoras-10.jpg
  • Juchitàn, Velas (traditional celebrations) of Ixtepec.  "Regada de Frutas", a procession along village's streets. The tehuanas are the archetype of an ancient and legendary Mexico, told in the murales of Diego Rivera and impersonated also by Frida Kalho that often wore these traditional dresses. But these showy dresses, and the rich golden ornaments that accompany them, are above all an instrument of auto-representatiom for these active women who often control the local economy and markets with an independent economic power reflected in their self confidence. Even in the festivities, where the women often dance a lot among them while the men remain seated watching.
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  • The Rio Ucayali's life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    em1011152.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    em1011145.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    em1011133.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611061.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611051.jpg
  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
    Perù-Ucayali-5.jpg
  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611218.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Coffee house near al Huseini mosque and Khan el-Khalili bazaar, the biggest of Middle East. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611230.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611179.jpg
  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611165.jpg
  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. A waiter with a picture of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The Rio Ucayali’s life between Pucallpa and Iquitos. A strange communty of hundreds of people cohabit for many days on the Tucàn. A forced community forms itself living in intimacy in a one dormitory made of red-hot iron where men, women, children, and any kind of baggage are crowded.
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  • As Shir, a craftman working the cloth for  hand made "mavas", the traditional men's skirts.
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  • Caro Synagogue where Yoseph Caro, chief Rabbi of Sfat and author of Shulhan Arukh, studied in 16th century. Old Jewish books.
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  • Mar Saba. The greek orthodox monastery stands in complete isolation in the middle of the Judean desert. The monastery is built near the cave where St sabs began his ascetic life in 478 A.D. Pilgrims. The women may only view the monastery from outside.
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  • Dead Sea, moshav Neot Ha-Kikkar, 20km south of Ein Bokek, specializes in state-of-the-art desert agricultural technology. Today many immigrants from Thailand work here as laborers.
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  • Tanis 70 km northeast of Zagazig, was a important Egyptian city capital at time of powerful Pharaohs like Pepi I. around 2330 BC. The city was believed until some years ago to be the Biblical city where the Hebrews were persecuted and has been also one location for the movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Until today only a small part has been excavated but so far the excavations has revealed the foundations of many temples and a royal necropolis.
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  • Tanis 70 km northeast of Zagazig, was a important Egyptian city capital at time of powerful Pharaohs like Pepi I. around 2330 BC. The city was believed until some years ago to be the Biblical city where the Hebrews were persecuted and has been also one location for the movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Until today only a small part has been excavated but so far the excavations has revealed the foundations of many temples and a royal necropolis. Here a statue of the great Pharaoh Ramses II.
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  • Nile river. The pilot of a  boat from Cairo to Qanater dams where Nile River Delta begins.
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  • Nile Valley. Edfu, Ptolemaic complex of temple of Horus.
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  • To gather data for his geo-archaeological system (GIS), a assistant of prodfessor Talal Akasheh use a teodolite in front of the Obelisk, one of the most important monuments of the Siq, the small canyon that gives access to Petra. With the next step of the project Akasheh, will complete a website for the Jordanian authorities, who can better manage the site, and academicians . He also intends to create a 3D documentation method as well as a non-destructive technique to study the salt content of the weathered monuments.
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  • Jerusalem, old city street.
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  • Western Wall, Jewish whorshippers celebrating Bar Mitzvah.
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  • Old City streets on friday night.
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  • Friday night in Western Jeruslame between Hillel st and Ben Yehuda street.
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  • Oxchùc, church of Santo Tomàs, where maya tzeltales still honour the old gods with ceremonies performed by traditional religious autoridades.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Sharia al-Muizz suq (popular market) near Bab Zuweila gate. Islamic Cairo. The suq (commercial areas and markets) are animated until night, mainly on Tuesday night before Friday holiday.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre). Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week. The “fariseos” interpretes the part of “spanish”, the Jesus Christ’s enemies. Isolated within the remote landscape of the formidabile and spectacular Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) live more than 50.000 Tarahumaras, the first largest Indian people of Norhern Mexico that call themselves Raramuri, “runners”, for thier ability to run long distances. Many Tarahumaras live in caves and log cabins, down in the canyon in winter and in the highlands in summer. They still retain strong traditions, today menaced by increasing pressure from increasing desertification and drug trafficants. Still today, the most importan event is the Holy Week, celebrated for days with a unique religious synchretism of Catholicism and traditional worship.
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  • Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre. Norogachi, Tarahumara Holy Week.
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  • San Juan Nuevo, village holiday.
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  • Nile Valley, army patrolling sensitive areas where in the past have happened many clashes with Islamic fondamentalists extremists.
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  • Plaza de la Constituciòn, the “Zocalo”, has always been the center of the city and of the entire country. “Las Conchas”, dance of the shells, inspired to aztecs traditions.
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  • Ake, one of the few henequén processing plants still working.
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  • Roda Island, Uum Kholtum Museum in Monastirly Palace. Uum Kholtoum singer has been the most popular and beloved singer of all the Arab World. His evening dresses .
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  • Media City with 2 millions square km, 19 studios and  more of 15 open air locations, where have been rebuilt the most important historical places of the country, is the biggest production center of all Middle East. T
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  • Islamic Cairo, spice market near Khan al-Khalili suq, the most important of Cairo.
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  • Nile Cruise in the evening, bellydancer.
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • View of the Citadel and Mohammed Alì mosque from Al-Azhar park. Located in the heart of old historic Cairo with stunning panoramic views, offers  landscaped gardens. Born in a degraded area is now a popular for the Cairo's holiday days.
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  • Fustat, southern Cairo. The imposing structure of Amr Ibn al-As mosque, the older builded in Islamic Egypt (AD 642).
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  • Alexandria, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina finished in 2000 covers a surface area of 36.770 square meters and is a truncated cilinder with a diameter of 160 meters. The bibliotheca will contains eight millions books.
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  • Nile river. Young dancers at Qanater dams, a popular picnic place for people sightseeing coming from Cairo every friday of holiday.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Khan al-Khalili, the most historical and important suq of Cairo.
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  • City center at lunch time
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  • Dublin:  pedestrian street near Grafton street, the car-free main shopping street.
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  • Selva Val Gardena. Traditional procession of the Ladins minorithy. THe Ladins of Gardena valley are well-known for they rich traditional dresses.
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  • The preparations for the Carnival begin many months before the event as elaborate costumes are designed and produced over a period of months. Carnaval, that many think is the best in Brazil, is still a street mass event involving almost the entire population.
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  • Rio Gallegos. Cabo Virgenes, Estancia Monte Dinero, esquila, sheep-shearing.
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  • San Andrés Itzapa:  faithful of Maximòn, a local deity who is probably a blend of Mayan Gods and conquistador Pedro de Alvarado.
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  • Dead Sea. Ein Gedi Natural Reserve. The Ein Gedi oasis ha a long history. David fled here to escape king Saul as, later, Simon Bar Kokhba, leader of the second Jewish revolt (132--135 A.D.) against Roman empire.
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  • Matancherry's Jew street, traditional storehouses utilised from centuries for ginger and others spices trade.
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  • Matancherry's Jew street, traditional storehouses utilised from centuries for ginger and others spices trade.
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  • Control Rooms of Miraflores Locks are protected inside deep tunnels. Every lock weighs 720 tons.
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  • Shopping Centre.
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  • Casco Viejo colonial district, where the city was rebuilt after 1671 Morgan's  capture and plunder.
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  • Casco Viejo. Palacio de las Garzas (Palace of the Herons), the presidential palace.
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  • patronal holiday of quechua indians living  in pueblo joven (shanty town) of Villa Salvador.
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  • Lima: ?Señor de los Milagros?  (Lord of the Miracles) the Perù's most solemn procession. The traditional "cofradias" of penitents  dressed in purple, a privilege, often passed down from father to son, to load on the shoulders the heavy statue of the Lord of the Miracles.
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  • Chichicastenango: religious Mayan ceremonies on the steps of Santo Tomàs church.
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