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  • Mehemet Çinar, 81, fingers his prayer beads and prays throughout the day, in addition to the required 5 times a day for the Muslim faithful. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey. Muslim, Islam, Religion, Elderly.
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  • Tur.mw2.58.xs..Moon and mosque minarets of the Ottoman mosque called Mecidiye Camii, which sits at the foot of the Bogazici bridge. Istanbul, Turkey. Muslim, Islam, Architecture, Religion..
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  • Bosphorus River, Istanbul, Turkey. The Ottoman mosque called Mecidiye Camii sits at the foot of the Bogazici bridge. Islam, Muslim, Architecture, Religion.
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  • Fuzbol (also spelled fusbol) players and merchants outside the Grand Mosque, Djenne, Mali. Africa, Games, Muslim, Islam, Religion, Africa.
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  • The mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali provides an impressive backdrop to daily life for foraging goats. Work, Muslim, Islam, Religion, Architecture. Africa.
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  • In the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, a family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
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  • In the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, a family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
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  • Women carry firewood past the impressive mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali.
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  • Chain-smoking Mehmet Çinar, 81, lights a cigarette in the small room he shares with his wife Emine, 78. He is bed ridden with lung-related maladies but says that smoking is not harmful. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Ermine Çinar, 78, a Muslim, prays five times a day (at home, on the floor of the bedroom where her husband is resting), Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Worshipers perform ritual washing before prayers at the Grand Mosque in Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • Clothes dry on the mud walls on rooftops of homes facing the Grand Mosque of Djenne, Mali.
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  • Mehemet Çinar, 81, photographed here with his wife Emine, 78, fingers his prayer beads and prays throughout the day, in addition to the required 5 times a day for the Muslim faithful. He is largely bed bound with lung ailments, but still smokes regularly. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Traditional domes (called gonbads on a rooftop at Amir Chakhaq Complex. Yazd, Iran.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • This young boy with green heart-shaped sunglasses is reading Koranic verses on a wooden tablet under the watchful eye of the Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali as he teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. Material World Project.
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  • Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway.
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  • Çinar Family of Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey. At center, back is Sezgi Çinar, 30 and his wife Feriye, 28 (mother of Hasan, 8, foreground, and Saliç, 11, not in photo). In front of Feriye is her mother-in-law Safiye, 55. Safiye's parents, at left are Emine, 78, and Mehmet, 81. Safiye's husband Hasan, 60, is not in photo. Material World project.
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  • The courtyard of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • Her parents listen as Safiye Çinar talks about the origins of her extended family. Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey.
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  • An elderly guest enters the Natomo home on the day of Pai's wedding clowning around to the amusement of the men sitting in the entryway of Soumana Natomo's mud walled home in Kouakourou, Mali. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Woman at the Saturday market in Kouakourou, Mali. Africa.
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  • Some women, such as this blanket merchant at the Saturday market in Kouakourou, Mali from the Bozo cultural group, have facial scars, tattoos, and dyes applied. They are considered marks of beauty.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Raising the flag before school in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. Children, Child, Africa. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • A family in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has a typical lunch of rice, chicken, olives, and salad on the floor of the dining room of their new house just outside the city in a subdivision of large homes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • A family in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has a typical lunch of rice, chicken, olives, and salad on the floor of the dining room of their new house just outside the city in a subdivision of large homes. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • A mother in Dubai cooks her family's lunch in their new kitchen building that is separate from the rest of the house. Her hands are adorned with henna in honor of the wedding she will attend this afternoon. She is covered from head to toe in her home today, as she is when out in public because she is entertaining guests from outside her family. As an indigenous citizen of the United Arab Emirates her family is entitled to a substantial subsidy from the government and jobs for the males in the household. Their high standard of living is a far cry from her parents' life as nomadic Bedouin camel herders of the desert. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (From a photographic gallery of images of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 54) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Portrait of a housewife at home. Her hands are adorned with henna in honor of the wedding she will attend this afternoon. She is covered from head to toe in her home today, as she is when out in public, because she is entertaining guests from outside her family.
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  • The Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in the city of Isfahan, Iran is extravagantly tiled and decorated.  The private mosque is in Imam Square or Naghsh-i Jahan Square.
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  • Inside the extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque: Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Under the main dome of the extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque: Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Standing, wearing yellow, is Soumana's father. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two.  From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. They have separate households but share meals in the courtyard of Pama's house.  From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • The Abdulla family with all of their possessions pose for a portrait in front of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Published in the book Material World, pages 236-237. Saif is a college professor who received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in the U.S. His older children have attended school in the U.S. as well.  Like many Kuwaitis the Abdullas enjoy a high standard of living, subsidized by the oil rich country. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • This young boy with green heart-shaped sunglasses is reading Koranic verses on a wooden tablet under the watchful eye of the Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali as he teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. Material World Project.
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  • Girls and women outside the mud walled mosque (Muslim) on Friday at mid day prayers in the W. African town of Tigona, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled mosque (Muslim) on Friday at mid-day prayers in the W. African town of Tigona, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled mosque (Muslim) on Friday at mid-day prayers in the W. African town of Tigona, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled mosque (Muslim) in the W. African town of San, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Children in front of the mud-walled mosque (Muslim) in the W. African town of San, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • Fatoumata Toure stirs a pot of porridge on the roof of her home in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • The Imam of Kouakourou village on the banks of the Niger River in Mali,  teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French where they learn math and reading. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • A gathering of townspeople in the village of Kouakourou, Mali during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Material World Project.
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  • Soumana Natomo, a Muslim, finishes his prayers at one of his two wives' homes as one of his daughters plays quietly. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Children, Child. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Soumana Natomo's two wives and a number of their children in the community of Kouakourou, Mali, look at photographs from the initial countries shot for Material World: A Global Family Project before they decided to paticipate in the project. Mali was the third country photographed. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Standing, wearing yellow, is Soumana's father. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Published in Material World, page 17.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. Architecture. Published in Material World, page 20-21.
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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • A shopping mall in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Material World Project.
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  • The Abdulla family with all of their possessions pose for a portrait in front of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Published in the book Material World, pages 236-237. Their house is 4,850 square foot one-story house (with a full basement) in a residential neighborhood.
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  • Ablutions for Friday Prayer at Mosque. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • On Friday, the noon prayers have begun and a vendor arranges his oranges while behind him men pray at a small mosque. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 258). This image is featured alongside the Çelik family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the first oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumeilah Oil Field. They did a double prayer at noon so they would not have to stop later in the day if they were at a critical phase. Later in the day they extinguished this smoky fire and the next day stopped the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger", a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • The Breidjing Refugee Camp, Eastern Chad on the Sudanese border shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Young boys take turns cutting each other's hair in preparation for the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month long fasting period of Ramadan. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, nearly all of the families in the sprawling Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr. Many of the Sudanese refugees went to services at an improvised mosque; afterward, the imam led a procession around the camp, singing songs and delivering periodic homilies to segregated groups of men and women. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Gathering in the shade of several large trees at the edge of a wadi in Eastern Chad, a group of Muslim worshipers gather to listen to an imam during the last few days of Ramadan near their village. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Grain trader Soumana Natomo (in blue) negotiates prices during market day in Kouakourou, Mali. Africa, Work. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Portrait of young Palestinian woman in Dubai, United Arab Emirates..
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  • Young boys take turns to cut each other's hair in preparation for the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month long fasting period of Ramadan at the Breidjing Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. The refugee camp, which is near the Sudanese border, shelters 30,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, a Sudanese widow at a refugee camp in neighboring Chad, arranges her clothes in the chilly desert dawn as she watches the pot of water she is heating to make aiysh (porridge). Anticipating the new moon at the end of the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast, she is preparing a celebratory meal for her five children.
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  • The Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Material World Project.
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  • Close up shot of the Imam holding his copy of the Muslim holy book, The Koran, during a class for the children of Kouakourou Village, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Material World Project.
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Standing, wearing yellow, is Soumana's father. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Downtown Kuwait City, Kuwait. The Persian Gulf can be seen (top left) beyond the spire of a mosque. Material World Project.
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  • As the sun rises, two men perform their morning prayers beneath a tree in the village of Dar es Salaam in central Chad. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 73).
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, nearly all of the families in the sprawling Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr. Many of the Sudanese refugees went to services at an improvised mosque; afterward, the imam led a procession around the camp, singing songs and delivering periodic homilies to segregated groups of men and women. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Squatting before the fire, D'jimia Souleymane stirs a pot of aiysh, the thick porridge that her refugee family eats three times a day. Even when they lived in their village in the Darfur region of Sudan though, aiysh was the mainstay of every meal, along with a thin soup. This is also the traditional meal in central and northern Chad. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 54)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). As she arranges her clothes in the chilly desert dawn, D'jimia Ishakh Souleymane, a Sudanese widow at a refugee camp in neighboring Chad, watches the pot of water she is heating to make aiysh (porridge). Anticipating the new moon at the end of the month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast, she is preparing a celebratory meal for her five children. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 21).
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  • Pama Kondo's second eldest daughter, Pai, 18, at center in pink, has just been married to her first cousin, Baba Nientao, who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai the morning of the marriage, as is the custom, and she took part in the ritualized mourning for her lost youth but is all smiles now. Her mother, Pama is in pink, at right, and her mother's co-wife Fatoumata Toure is at right, just behind her.
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  • At the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting period, some of the families in the Breidjing Refugee Camp celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr by going to services at an improvised mosque; afterward, the imam led a procession around the camp, singing songs and delivering periodic homilies (shown here). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 63).
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  • Old Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt, including part of the city of the dead.
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  • Mosque interior, old Islamic Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Old Islamic Cairo framed through a minaret tower window. Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Amir Chakhaq Complex. Old city at dusk, Yazd, Iran.
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the second oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with 5 billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the first oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil Field. They did a double prayer at noon so they would not have to stop later in the day if they were at a critical phase. Later in the day they extinguished this smoky fire and the next day stopped the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a stinger, a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the first oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. Later in the day they extinguished this smoky fire and the next day stopped the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger", (a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas). The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. The burning wells in the Rumaila Field were ignited by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began in March 2003. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Isfahan, Iran. Faith D'Aluisio with an umbrella during a snowfall in front of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). Built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Under the main dome of the extravagently tiled and decorated private mosque Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square).  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the second oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030401_154_x.jpg
  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the first oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil Field. Later in the day they extinguished this smoky fire and the next day stopped the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger", a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest with 5 billion barrels in reserve. The burning wells in the Rumaila Field were ignited by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began in March 2003. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
    IRQ_030324_154_rwx.jpg
  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the first oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil Field. Later in the day they extinguished this smoky fire and the next day stopped the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger", a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest with 5 billion barrels in reserve. The burning wells in the Rumaila Field were ignited by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began in March 2003. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Burning oil well in the Rumaila Oil Field in southern Iraq. The wells were ignited by retreating Iraqi troops when the US and UK invasion began in March 2003. Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the first oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumaila Oil field. Later in the day they extinguished this smoky fire and the next day stopped the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger," a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah.
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  • Snowfalling over the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque)  (Also referred to as Emam Square). Built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan. The architect was Ostad Abu'l-Qasim.  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • A woman carrying an umbrella in the light snow and rain, passes by the beautifully tiled private mosque called Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque.  Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square).  (Imam Square is also called Naghsh-i Jahan Square).
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  • Newly reconstructed Caravanseraye Yazd Hotel, Yazd, Iran.  Also spelled caravansarai, caravanserai and caravansaray, in Farsi. Many of the old caravanserais of Iran are being renovated to attract tourists and to restore the architecture of the country's cultural past. These travelers' inns served as sheltering points for travelers, traders, pilgrims, and solders?as well as their animals, and included storehouses for merchant's goods. The architecture of each is based on the model of limited entrances to the outside to guard against invaders and thieves, and an open courtyard into which most rooms face.
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  • The pyramids of Giza seen through the dust, smoke and haze of Cairo Egypt from the minaret of a mosque. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • View of central Istanbul, and the Bosphorus River beyond. In the distance is the Galata Bridge over the Bosphorus, the strait between the Black and Aegean seas. Located on a narrow isthmus between two bodies of water, the Turkish city of Istanbul (formerly known as Constantinople and, before that, Byzantium) long dominated the trade between Europe and Asia. The Galata District in the foreground, a hub for both entertainment and finance, is on the European side of the Bosphorus, both geographically and culturally. Istanbul, Turkey. Muslim, Islam, Architecture...
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  • Men pass the mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali. Muslim, Islam, Religion, Africa.
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  • Pilgrims take their turn to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers.  Hindus believe that the rivers in the Indian cities of Allahabad, Haridwar, Nasik, and Ujjain are sacred, and that bathing in those rivers during the religious festival Kumbh Mela will release them from past sins and mistakes and liberate them from the cycle of birth and death. Auspicious bathing days are determined by the position of the sun and the moon, and on these days more than a million pilgrims might descend for a dip. In Ujjain, thousands of police control the crowds at the Shipra River with whistles, poles, and batons to prevent stampedes and drownings, and bathing time is kept to 12 minutes per group. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world.  Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors. The festival attracts more pilgrims than any other religious gathering on the planet, including Islam's Hajj.
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  • Two visitors standing at the  Mount of Olives, Israel, look out over the cemetery toward the gold-leafed Dome of the Rock, the most famous Islamic monument in the Old City of Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Children watch as a man butchers a cow on the street for the annual religious festival of Eid al-Adha in Dakha, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has the world's fourth largest Muslim population, and during the three days of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, Dhaka's streets run red with the blood of thousands of butchered cattle. The feast comes at the conclusion of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In both the Koran and the Bible, God told the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to show supreme obedience to Allah (God). At the last moment, his son was spared and Ibrahim was allowed to sacrifice a ram instead. In Dhaka, as in the rest of the Muslim world, Eid al- Adha commemorates this tale, and the meat of the sacrificed animals is distributed to relatives, friends, and the poor.
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