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  • Mohammad Riahi, a part time restaurant manager and taxi driver eats breakfast with his family at their home in the city of Yazd, Iran.  (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He lives with his father and mother, and will until he marries. Even then, he and his bride will be offered the second floor of his parent's home. At the restaurant he eats whatever he feels like eating. At home though, he eats what his mother puts on the tablecloth on the floor in the middle of their living room. Many of their meals are vegetable and starch-based although they have lamb or chicken occasionally, and sheep's head soup on the weekend. As Muslims, they never eat pork.
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  • Minibus driver and part-time restaurant manager's Mohammad Riahi's mother in her kitchen in the city of Yazd, Iran. (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Mohammed eats whatever he wants to eat at the restaurant, but at home he eats what his mother puts on the tablecloth on the floor in the middle of their living room. Many of their meals are vegetable and starch-based although they have lamb or chicken occasionally, and sheep's head soup on the weekend. As Muslims, they never eat pork.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat's mother, walks from the kitchen, about to sit down to a dinner with her family in their elegant four-story home in Isfahan, Iran. With her husband, a renowned miniaturist painter, they exemplify the educated Iranian upper middle class in Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, famous for art and Islamic architecture.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer with her typical day's worth of food at her home in the city of Isfahan, Iran.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in December was 2400 kcals. She is 17 years of age; 5 feet, 4.5 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her father, a renowned miniaturist painter, is seated on the couch, along with her mother and her brother, a university student. Together, they exemplify the educated Iranian upper middle class in Isfahan, Iran's third largest city, famous for art and Islamic architecture. Atefeh's relaxed repose and her attire, combining jeans and headscarf, show her ease with foreigners yet respect for tradition. She aspires to turn her fashion designing avocation into a vocation by becoming a designer after college.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A colorful selection of local dishes in a Palestinian restaurant in Abu Dis, just outside the barrier near East Jerusalem, includes hummus, olives, chiles, beets, cabbage slaw, and baba ganoush.
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  • A colorful selection of local dishes in a Palestinian restaurant in Abu Dis, just outside the barrier near East Jerusalem, includes hummus, olives, chiles, beets, cabbage slaw, and baba ganoush. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver in his extended family's backyard olive orchard with his day's worth of food in the Palestinian village of Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3000 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 204 pounds. On the hilltop in the distance, Israel's 25-foot-high concrete security barrier cuts off this Abu Dis neighborhood from Jerusalem, turning a short trip into the city into an extremely long and circuitous journey requiring passage through an Israeli checkpoint on the highway. Constructed by the Israeli government to cut down on attacks and suicide bombings, the highly controversial 436-mile-long barrier was 60 percent complete at the time of this photo. For the majority of Palestinians, travel to and from East Jerusalem now requires special permits from the Israeli government?often difficult or impossible to obtain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Palestinian guide and driver Abdul-Baset Razem drinks coffee in his living room in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem. (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver, with his family in his backyard harvesting olives from one of their trees in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver, with his family in his backyard olive orchard in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's mother-in-law ties a boy's shoelaces at their home in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem, Palestine.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Palestinian guide and driver Abdul-Baset Razem's daughter with her aunt and grandmother at their home in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem. (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's wife prepares a meal at their home in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver, at a midday meal with his family in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's wife, Munira, tends to the makloubeh at the stove at their extended family home in the village of Abu Dis, East Jerusalem.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's mother-in-law ties a boy's shoelaces at their home in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem, Palestine.  (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Palestinian guide and driver Abdul-Baset Razem's son with his aunt and grandmother at their home in a Palestinean village in East Jerusalem. (Abdul-Baset Razem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem and his family having a mid day meal in the Palestinian village Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem's wife, Munira, tends to the makloubeh at the stove, while his daughter Mariam, 14, chops tomatoes at their extended family's home in the village of Abu Dis, East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Their 8-year-old daughter, Maram, saunters through, escaping kitchen duties before the big weekend midday meal.
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  • Atefeh Fotowat, a high school student and aspiring fashion designer (second from left in blue jeans), enjoys dinner with her family in their elegant four-story home in Isfahan, Iran.  (Atefeh Fotowat is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets in front of the Imam Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, during a December snow storm. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The entrance to 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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  • 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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  • A portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is displayed at the Zayandeh River bridges in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Tourists visit the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence to be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery, although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Pictures of deceased Iranians are displayed on graves in a cemetery in Maybod, Iran.
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  • 15-year olds smoke water pipes (hookahs) in a tea shop overlooking Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In the distance, a view of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque)  built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1, as part of the renovation of the central square of Isfahan.
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  • Shielded from the sun and strangers' eyes, and wrapped up against the chilly December air, a woman cloaked in a black chador wends her way through the ancient streets in the old market district of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Bread bakes inside circular ovens at Akbar Zareh's bakery in the city of Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The son of a baker, Zareh began working full-time at age 10 and regrets that he didn't attend school and learn how to read and write. By working 10 hours a day, every day of the week, he has sent his four children to school so they don't have to toil as hard as he does. The product of his daily labor is something to savor?his fresh, hot loaves are as mouthwatering and tasty as any in the world. After baking in the tandoor clay ovens (at left), most of the rounds of fresh bread are dried and broken into bits.
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  • Akbar Zareh reaches above the circular ovens at his bakery in the city of  Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, award-winning authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at the Jameh Mosque in the city of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The courtyard of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) and its reflection at night in Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. (Also referred to as Emam Square). The mosque was 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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  • People walk across the forecourt of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in the city of Isfahan, Iran. The  extravagantly tiled and decorated private mosque is in Imam Square, also known as Naghsh-i Jahan Square in Isfahan.
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  • A December snowfall in the city of Isfahan, Iran.
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  • A woman walks across the forecourt of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque during a snow-fall in the city of Esfahan, Iran.
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  • Shoppers walk through a bazaar in Isfahan, Iran, with a poster of Ayatollah Khamenei hanging above.
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  • Diners at table at the Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Diners at table at the Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • A 76-year-old weaver works in a cave workshop in Na'in, Iran, making a camel hair cloak for a cleric. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A picture of Mohammed Ali Sharifi is displayed on an Iran-Iraq War martyr billboard near Yazd, Iran. A portion of the Yazd to Na'in highway is named after him
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  • A woman scrapes a sheep's skin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. She will use the sheep skin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A goat ventures into the recent snowfall from his owner's home in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan, central Iran.
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  • Young girls who are wedding guests sit in the Talar Yazd Restaurant in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Iranian boys sit around a fire near the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence, where their bodies would be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery , although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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  • Painters apply color to bisqueware at Morvarid (Pearl) pottery Factory, Meybod (Also spelled "Maybod"), Iran. Each of the painters applies an assigned traditional design.
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  • At left is the open door to Akbar Zareh's bakery is on this dirt street in the city of Yazd, in Yazd province , Iran.  (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • An elderly Iranian man on the  street in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man operates a henna mill in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • A decorative pattern carved onto the doors of the Jameh Mosque in Yazd, Iran.
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  • Widow of Iraq War veteran at memorial for her husband.
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  • Akbar Zareh with his typical day's worth of food at his bakery in the province of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A woman adjusts  the wedding gown of a bride at a ceremony in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fresh dough, about to be baked in circular ovens, in Akbar Zareh's bakery in the province of Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The son of a baker, Zareh began working full-time at age 10 and regrets that he didn't attend school and learn how to read and write. By working 10 hours a day, every day of the week, he has sent his four children to school so they don't have to toil as hard as he does. The product of his daily labor is something to savor. His fresh, hot loaves are as mouthwatering and tasty as any in the world. After baking in the tandoor clay ovens, most of the rounds of fresh bread are dried and broken into bits.
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  • Kabob cooking area of the Talar Yazd Restaurant, in Yazd, Iran, where driver Mohammad Riahi works part time.  (Mohammad Riahi is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Windtowers (called badgirs in Farsi) tower over homes in the city of Yazd, Iran. They are designed to catch the wind and cool homes and other buildings naturally, with no fans or electricity. Building structures in Iran are built close together, especially in the country's hot, arid central region, and their purposefully tall earthen and brick walls create maximum shade for pedestrians in the narrow adjacent alleyways.
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, makes bread at his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, forms dough in his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shoppers go about their business inside a souk (market) in the central Iranian desert city of Yazd, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places on earth. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Actors dressed as Iraqi men sit at a market stall in the fabricated Iraqi village if Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • The family of Abdul Azziz's brother picks qat outside Sanaa, Yemen. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • Traditional knife seller Bashir Sabana pours himself a glass of tea while smoking a cigarette at his home in Sanaa, Yemen.   (Bashir Sabana is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A vendor of kitchen wares attends to customers in the old souk market in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Fresh leaves of the much sought after qat at a house in Sanaa, Yemen. The men in the background were gathered for a Thursday afternoon qat chewing session.   Qat chewing is a favorite pastime among many Yemenis.
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  • Yemeni men relax at a qat chewing session in a private home in Sanaa, Yemen. They also smoke tobacco in a hookah, eat sweets, and drink water while they chew and talk for hours.
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  • The Old City of Jerusalem and Jewish Cemetery seen from the Mount of Olives, Israel. The church at the center is the Russian church of Mary Magdalene.
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  • Sanaa, Yemen. Old City. Ahmed Swaid, qat seller, with one day's food. For Nutrtion 101 project. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Saada Haidar, a housewife, with her husband, their three sons and visiting nieces at her home in Sanaa, Yemen. (Saada, 27, is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A girl leans on a qat tree in a qat orchard near the city of Sanaa, Yemen. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • A young woman's hands stick out of a small window opening in the wall of a house near the Rock Palace near Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Children stand in a qat orchard near the Rock Palace outside Sanaa, Yemen. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • Qat trees outside the city of Sanaa, Yemen. The growing of qat trees in areas surrounding Yemen's cities has led to the depletion of water resources, threatening the water supplies some cities.
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  • Qat sellers make transactions and count money from their day's sales at a qat market near Rock Palace, near Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • A vendor at his vegetable and fruit market stall at Al-Hawta souk, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Workers make mud bricks near Al-Hawta, near Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • A man milks a goat in a backyard in the town of Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • The Khailah Palace Hotel in Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • An aerial view of the town of Shibam, in the Hadhramawt Valley, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • An aerial view of the town of Shibam, in the Hadhramawt Valley, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • A man sells qat leaves in the souk of BinAifan, Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • A donkey at Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen. In the distance is the Khailah Palace Hotel.
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  • A man prays at a grave in the Muslim cemetery in the city of Tarim, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • A woman tends to her goats before milking them in the town of Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • A woman dressed in a black abaya and shielded from the sun in a wide-brimmed straw hat called a nakhl, herds goats near Shibam on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula's Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter. This section of desert holds the world's largest stretch of sand. Hadhramawt, Yemen
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  • Customers shop at the souk in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Traditional knife seller Bashir Sabana enjoys a noon day meal with family members at his home in Sanaa, Yemen. (Bashir Sabana is one of the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jambiyas on display at a market stall in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • A traditional dagger seller sews a belt used for fastening the jambiya around the waist at his market stall in Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • Bashir Sabana's father, in traditional clothing, smokes a cigarette and sits with his hookah in front of him at his market stall in Sanaa, Yemen.  (Bashir Sabana is among the people interviewed for the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A traditional dagger seller brandishes one of the jambiyas (daggers) in his broad inventory at his market stall in the souk of Sanaa, Yemen.
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  • At dusk, the skyline of Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • Yemeni men relax at a qat chewing session in a private home in Sanaa, Yemen. They also smoke tobacco in a hookah, eat sweets, and drink water while they chew and talk for hours.
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  • A man chews qat at an afternoon qat chewing session at Karim's house in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Qat chewing is a popular diversion for many Yemenis.
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  • Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, a qat merchant, sits on a rooftop in the old Yemeni city of Sanaa. (Ahmed Ahmed Swaid is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of April was 3300 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 148 pounds. Ahmed, who wears a jambiya dagger as many Yemeni men do, has been a qat dealer in the old city souk for eight years. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A boy with a bag of qat leaves from  street vendors in Sanaa, Yemen in the old city souk. Although qat chewing isn't as severe a health hazard as smoking tobacco, it has drastic social, economic, and environmental consequences. When chewed, the leaves release a mild stimulant related to amphetamines. Qat is chewed several times a week by a large percentage of the population: 90 percent of Yemen's men and 25 percent of its women. Because growing qat is 10 to 20 times more profitable than other crops, scarce groundwater is being depleted to irrigate it, to the detriment of food crops and agricultural exports.
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  • The view from the roof of an 8 story hotel in old Sanaa, Yemen's capital, is a rough blend of the old and the new, with satellite dishes perched on the roofs of ancient buildings.
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  • Jewish worshippers say their prayers at the Western Wall, in Old City, Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • Tourists visit the Damascas Gate in Old City wall, Jerusalem, Israel.
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  • A busy street near Ramses Square in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Worshipers say their prayers in a building in Cairo, Egypt.
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