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09/21/2022

People gather during a protest for Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested by morality police allegedly not complying with strict dress code in Iran.

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Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran on September 19, 2022. - Fresh protests broke out on September 19 in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the "morality police" that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported. Public anger has grown since authorities on Friday announced the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in a hospital after three days in a coma, following her arrest by Tehran's morality police during a visit to the capital on September 13.

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09/21/2022

Iranian protestor, burning Islamic Republic’s flag, in Hamedan, Iran.
Protests started after the death of #MahsaAmini in custody of Islamic Republic’s police force.

Photo by @middleeastimages for @iranwire

معترض ایرانی در حال سوزاندن پرچم جمهوری اسلامی در همدان.
اعتراضات سراسری در ایران پس از مرگ #مهسا_امینی در حالی که توسط پلیس جمهوری اسلامی دستگیر شده بود آغاز شد.

09/21/2022

People gather during a protest for Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested by morality police allegedly not complying with strict dress code in Tehran, Iran on September 20, 2022.

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09/16/2022

Iranian police warn a woman about her clothing and hair during a crackdown to enforce Islamic dress code on April 22, 2007 in Tehran, Iran.

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09/11/2022

Millions make the journey to attend the annual gathering, which is held at the end of a 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual that commemorates the martyrdom of the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia Muslim Imam.
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09/11/2022

Presence of Iranian pilgrims in an Iranian lounge, Called Mokeb, in Najaf city to participate in Arba'een March during the month of Muharram.

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09/04/2022

A rights group says the Islamic Republic has sentenced two LGBTQ activists to death on charges of "corruption on earth through the promotion of homosexuality.

Zahra hamadani (Sarah), 28, was born and raised in Iran. Since she had no chance of living with her girlfriend (Kalin, 22) freely and in peace in Iran, they have had to move to Erbil, Kurdistan.

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08/26/2022

Thousands of Iranians attended a funeral procession in Tehran for prominent poet Houshang Ebtehaj, whose life and work spans many of Iran's political, cultural, and literary upheavals.

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08/16/2022

Talibanistan - Middle East Images

Taliban mark 1st year back in power, but for many Afghans there’s nothing to celebrate
More than 40% of the population is living on less than one meal a day and 97% are expected to have fallen below the poverty line by the end of the year.

Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15th, 2021. The capital was taken over after 20 years of American control and presence. The Afghan president Ashraf Ghani transferred and stepped…

08/15/2022

Afghan women, who have seen their rights diminish day by day, demonstrate in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan,Taliban fighters fired into the air to disperse this rare women's protest, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists' return to power. About 40 women -Achanting Bread, work and freedom" - marched in front of the education ministry before a group of Taliban fighters dispersed them by firing their guns into the air.

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August 13,2022
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08/12/2022

The flooded village of Mazdaran in Firoozkooh county 124 km (77 miles) northeast of Tehran.
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Photo by ©️ H Mohammad

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08/11/2022

Baraa, 7, poses for a portrait in Madaba, Jordan. Bara?a and her brother Ahmad, 21, can no longer afford medication for a blood disorder they have, called thalassaemia. The last of their medication will run out and cannot afford to pay the $2800 a month they need for blood transfusion and medication. Having no medication will lead to fatigue, organ failure, even death. Before the government made the changes It was heavily subsidized at a low cost of 0.25 cents (US$0.35) a month. This photo was taken as part of a story for UNHCR that highlights the difficulties refugees are facing in accessing healthcare and medicine in Jordan after the Jordanian government decided to cut healthcare subsidies from refugees.

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Madaba ,Jordan 2018

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08/08/2022

Shiite faithful pilgrims do their ritual during a Muharram procession inside the holy shrine of Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and the first Imam of the Shiites, in Najaf, Iraq. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present.-day Iraq in the 7th century.
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08/04/2022

Lebanon 2018-2021

My great grandmother, Sito Linda, was raised just a few hundred feet from where I sit writing this today in my apartment near Sassine Square. In 1925 she and her husband, Mitchell Maalouf, from the small mountain village of Kfarakab, emigrated to Post, Texas, and would remain there for the rest of their lives. The port which they left from in Beirut, would violently explode nearly 100 years later in 2020, killing 218, causing $15+ billion in damages, and displacing some 300,000 people. Three years prior, I had relocated to Lebanon, in order to discover my mother’s roots.

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©️ @Alex Fitch #middleeastimages

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08/02/2022

Iraqis continue their open sit-in in the Iraqi parliament and the
Green Zone after the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr
called for a demonstration, as Iraq is still mired in the heart of the
political confrontation waged by the two dominant forces "the Sadrist
movement" and the "coordinating framework", after more than 270 days
of constitutional vacuum The frequency of the differences between the
two forces. While the remaining forces are watching from afar, with
Al-Sadr's calls to continue demonstrating.

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07/29/2022

Syrians participate in a wedding ceremony on the ruins of war-damaged houses in the city of Ariha, south of Idlib Aerial photos show dozens of residents of the city of Ariha, south of Idlib governorate, participating in a newlywed “wedding” on Jabal Al-Arbaeen by cars and motorcycles, as they walk near the houses destroyed by the bombing of the city during the past years of war.
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07/18/2022

22-year-old Syrian refugee Hanan prays in a shattered home in the city of Huwaijeh in the northern region of Jordan. This photo is part of a long term project 'A Familiar Stranger' a series of photographic and video images that challenges post-colonial constructs and generalizations about the femininity, religion and agency of Arab women. Often labeled as naively subservient or mindlessly radicalized, the women in 'A Familiar Stranger' defy such stereotypes and unabashedly project their individuality through how they dress or inhabit spaces. Real name concealed for privacy.
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HUWAIJEH, Jordan (21/05/2016)

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07/11/2022

18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun poses for a portrait after an interview with media a day after her arrival in Toronto at Corvetti Education Centre in downtown Toronto Jan. 14, 2019. Ms al-Qunun told the media that she was stopped at Bangkok airport in transit from Kuwait and had her passport taken from her. she claimed that she fled her family fearing for her life and had been planning to head to Australia where she hoped to seek asylum. Ms al-Qunun was eventually granted asylum by the Canadian government after a request from UNHCR and entered Canada on temporary resident permit.

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TORONTO, ON - (14/01/2019)

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07/10/2022

22-year-old Syrian refugee Hanan relaxes on a mattress in an afternoon gathering with family at her home in the Northern village of Huwaijeh in Jordan May 31, 2016. This photo is part of a long term project 'A Familiar Stranger' a series of photographic and video images that challenges post-colonial constructs and generalizations about the femininity, religion and agency of Arab women. Often labeled as naively subservient or mindlessly radicalized, the women in 'A Familiar Stranger' defy such stereotypes and unabashedly project their individuality through how they dress or inhabit spaces. Real name concealed for privacy.
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HUWAIJEH, Jordan (31/05/2016)

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07/08/2022

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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06/27/2022

Amongst thousands of New Yorkers who celebrated the Pride March on June 26th 2022, a group of Middle Eastern and North African LGBTQ+ community joined the #NYCPride in Manhattan to cherish the love, and support the community.
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06/24/2022

A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported.
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06/02/2022

Saffron is a plant from the genus Iris and has many medical and nutritional properties and is considered the most expensive spice in the world. This plant has a historical background and Iran is the largest producer of saffron in the world; An average of 200 tons of crop is harvested annually from 84,000 hectares of Iranian saffron farms.

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05/24/2022

A 10- story commercial building under construction collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran on Monday, May 23; leaving a horrific scene and several casualties behind. Shops and even vehicles in the nearby streets have been buried under the ruins of the building. The number of the casualties are unknown and there are still people trapped under the remains after the Metropol building collapsed but it is believed that the casualty toll could be as high as 80 people or even more.

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05/23/2022

A 10- story commercial building under construction collapsed in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran on Monday, May 23; leaving a horrific scene and several casualties behind. Shops and even vehicles in the nearby streets have been buried under the ruins of the building. The number of the casualties are unknown and there are still people trapped under the remains after the Metropol building collapsed but it is believed that the casualty toll could be as high as 80 people or even more.

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05/19/2022

Iraq was hit by another dust storm on Sunday again. Climate change has drastically affected these series of dust storms, and they have become increasingly common in Baghdad, Iraq. Experts predict that these dust storms will get worst in the next few decades and Iraq could suffer a 15 to 20% drop in water resources in the next two decades.

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05/16/2022

برای شهروند خبرنگارها
اگر این ایام در تجمع‌ها حضور دارید، این نکات را رعایت کنید.
این ویدئو را با یکدیگر به اشتراک بگذارید.

#شهروند_خبرنگار

05/15/2022

Rahimdad, a 42-year-old, is eating bread and yogurt for lunch in the Rask forest village.
He lives with his wife and two children in a small house without a home appliance.

2-Mohammad Azim Asrkani with his grandchildren Omran and Amer at their home

Mohammad Azim has been living at home for two years with a heart attack and illness.

This six-membered family earns less than $ 40 a month.

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05/05/2022

Iraq was hit by another dust storm on Sunday again. Climate change has drastically affected these series of dust storms, and they have become increasingly common in Baghdad, Iraq. Experts predict that these dust storms will get worst in the next few decades and Iraq could suffer a 15 to 20% drop in water resources in the next two decades.

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04/19/2022

Boys leave the LycÈe Esteqlal school in the centre of Kabul. The Taliban have banned teenage girls from attending school and university for the time being. Two explosions at a boys’ school in Kabul kills at least 6 people and wounds over 20 people. The blasts took place in the Shia dominated area of the city at Abdul Rahim Shahid school. None of the Islamic groups have claimed the responsibility for the attacks so far.

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04/14/2022

Palestinians run to take cover from tear gas canisters fired by Israeli troops during clashes on the Gaza-Israel border, east of Gaza City, on March 1, 2019.

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03/31/2022

What can we learn from Istanbul’s 3,000 mosques?

Middle East Images photographer Alba Cambeiro Cernadas Cernadas photos were featured in National Geographic

Faith, art, and history converge at these Islamic places of worship. We learn how architectural feats and design details chronicle Istanbul’s history.