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Le Club

Michael took this stellar photo of a bullet-holed, disco-no-longer in Hamra, Beirut.

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The Doors of Damascus

Alice in Damascus. . . Bearing crosses in Arabic. . . How many patterns can you find in the picture. . . Dixie cups with hot fudge. . . A little further than a flush. . . When summer meets fall. . . The colors of overnight delivery–stripped and chipped.  A starry-eyed surprise behind Door [...]

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Colorless Syria

Shades of Rockwell shine through as a backpacker gets a shave–one of many Middle Eastern grooming traditions for males.   Dorm bed at the Haramain Hotel, a centuries-year old home in Damascus. Mother and children stroll the gritty souk of Aleppo, Syria on market day. Well, almost colorless. . .this shabby facade, part Hollywood haunted house and part soda-shop-wafer, was everywhere [...]

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Local Faces

Our Buying bananas straight from the plantation. Our hitchhiking host (left) along the switchbacks and dreary seacoast towns of Mediterranean Turkey.

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Soft. Prımıtıve. Shıny. Sexy. (Not all together)

These Turkısh promenade-placed shrubs are lıke a cross between egg-dyed romaine lettuce heads and those trendy crocheted broches found at Urban Outfıtters . . . . From the Eskısehır-to-Afyon bus. As a farmers daughter, I’ve been there before. I’ve been lookıng for an antıque-whıte, cherry-themed servıng plate. Um, no. But ıf I was, I could fınd one [...]

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Just some friendly photos. . .

Walking through the alley, in the rain, to reach the opera. . . Bulgarian friends Maya and Angel. . . Slurping up the spring water. . . Boris pausing between drum beats at an environmental protest rally. . .

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