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A mother with her two daughters under a fly-over in central Istanbul. The kids wait for the pedestrian crossing lights to go green to run after people and approach them for money. When the light turns red they dart back to their mum who's waiting in the shadow of the underpass. Begging with children is illegal in Turkey and they are clearly scared to get moved on or troubled by officials. Their mum let me take the shot of the girls but didn't want to be in the pic herself. The kids were working hard and it seemed to work for them; they never returned empty-handed from their runs. It was raining, late rush-hour on a cold and windy day in late November.
أبكي على شام الهوى بعيون مظلومٍ منــاضل
وأذوب في ساحاتها بين المساجــد والمنــازل
ربّاه سلّم أهلها واحم المخــارج والمداخــــــل
واحفظ بلاد المسلمين عن اليمائن والشمــائل
مستضعفين فمن لهم يارب غيرك في النوازل
مستمسكين بدينهم ودمــاؤهم عطر الجــــادل
رفعوا الأكف تضرعوا عند الشدائد والــزلازل
يارب صن أعراضهم ونفوسهم من كــل قاتل
وقفوا دروعا حرة دون البنادق والقنابـــــــل
نامت عيون صغارهم واستيقظت نار المعاول
لا عاش قاتلهم ولادامت له يومـــاً أنامـــــــل
وعليه أصبح حوبةً دمـــــع الثكالى والأرامـل
لله رب المشكتى رب الأواخـــر والأوائـــــــل
والله فوق المعتدي فوق الأسنّة والسلاســـل
وغداً يكون لأمتي صرح تزينه المشاعـــــل
وغداً إذا الحق اعتلى حتماً سيزهق كل باطل
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Syria in 2010.
Hama - The city is renowned for its seventeen norias (water wheels) used for watering the gardens, which are claimed to date back to 1100 BC.
A Syrian migrant carries a child as she walks along a railway track after crossing into Hungary from the border with Serbia, Aug. 29.(Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)
The only part that has survived from the monastery's original structure is the ossuary, which has a specific architectural design and ancient frescoes, and is situated 300 m away from the contemporary monastery complex. It looks inaccessible when viewed from the north. The building has two storeys, of which only one can be seen from the south. From architectural point of view the plan of the ossuary looks foreign to the local traditions. It is reminiscent of Syrian-Palestine mortuaries with its two floors of identical design. Each floor has a narthex, a single nave and an apse. The ground floor is intended for a crypt and has 14 burial niches. It would appear that the original ossuary was designed to house fourteen specific corpses under the floor pavement. Wikipedia
IMAGE INFO
- Viewpoint is looking east-south-east into the Beqaa Valley, with the Anti Lebanon Mountains in the distance.
- Tom shot this pic approx. 600 metres further east, along the now Rue Ash Sham or Beirut-Damascus International Highway.
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SOURCE INFO
- Original B&W image was captured by my late father-in-law, Driver Tom Beazley of the Australian Army 2/1 Anti-Tank Regiment, 19 Brigade, 2 Australian Imperial Force, using a Kodak Six-20 Popular Brownie box camera with 120 roll film, during his unit's big convoy move from Julis re-training Camp, via Beyrouth, to Ras Baalbek operations camp in the Beqaa Valley, Syria (now Lebanon).
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PROCESS INFO
- Original very faded, blurry & grainy photo print was digitized using a Canon Canoscan 8800F scanner.
- Latest version colourized & enhanced using Skylum Luminar Neo AI, Topaz Gigapixel AI & Adobe Photoshop CS2 softwares.
Syria in 2010.
Damascus.
Sayyida Ruqayya Mausoleum.
Rugayya is a muslim girl and it is an Arabic originated name with multiple meanings. Ruqayya name meaning is Spell, Superior, and the associated lucky number is 9.
Teenage Syrian girls take part in a discussion about children's rights, at a community centre in Lebanon which is being used as a temporary school by Italian NGO Intersos and UNICEF. The project is funded by the UK government, as part of the #NoLostGeneration Initiative.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development