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09/16/2023

Some moments of life as a picture
Why am I in this body? Why my body is different? Why am I not him and he is not me? Why is she covered, and her body is soaked in blood? Why has her body become a disaster for her life?
Questions are changing one by one or two by two, they become images, the image of those who were women and life, wishes and dreams, the dream of freedom. In the cities, villages, on the streets, and allies, they become outcry, who was soaked with blood, and they show up in the new body in the image. The image of thousands and millions who shout, raise their voices and cross the boundaries of villages, cities, and countries of the world. The image of women of my country!
I listen to their life story at the night, and in the daytime I’m their co-traveler, embracing their blood-soaked bodies and taking them from a mountain to the next one, perhaps I can find a calm place full of freedom so I can bury them in a piece of soil. They are resurrected and leave the body buried in the soil and raise their voice and visit everywhere, they knock on the closed doors of every house and raise their voice for freedom, so every human on the earth can be aware of what they’ve been through. They are now outside your home. Open the door, hug them and receive their message.
If you wear a hat, a veil, and a head scarf, remove it so Jina and other Jinas can see your free faces, they are the messengers of freedom!

07/30/2023

demonstrators in Ikizkoy, in the Milas district of the Province of Mugla, Turkey on 28 July 2023. Local residents and environmental activists engaged in their fifth day of demonstrating against the deforestation project of the 750-decare century-old pine forest, intended to expand a lignite field in the forests of Akbelen in Ikizkoy, leading to clashes with Turkish Gendarmerie.

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07/29/2023

Demonstrators in Ikizkoy, in the Milas district of the Province of Mugla, Turkey on 28 July 2023. Local residents and environmental activists engaged in their fifth day of demonstrating against the deforestation project of the 750-decare century-old pine forest, intended to expand a lignite field in the forests of Akbelen in Ikizkoy, leading to clashes with Turkish Gendarmerie.

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07/28/2023

عاشورای ۸۸
From middle East images archive Iran, Tehran 2009

It was meant to be an event when Iranians unite to honour one of Shia Islam's most revered martyrs. Instead, it turned into a day of bloodshed that left at least nine people dead, many more injured and the country facing a potentially unbridgeable political divide amid an escalating cycle of violence.

The Shia mourning ceremony of Ashura became a confrontation between Iran's torn political factions when the government unleashed a furious crackdown on pro-opposition protesters that included orders to open fire.



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07/22/2023

Every month we have guest artists from the Middle East, we use this platform to get their work seen and share their artistry on our platform. We choose our artist from various mediums and anywhere from the Middle East and North Africa.

Artist biography:

Roshi Rouzbehani is an Iranian freelance illustrator based in London. She is passionate about gender equality and loves to put topics such as women's empowerment and sisterhood at the center of her work. She also enjoys illustrating conceptual illustrations about social issues. She has collaborated with clients like The Washington Post, Project Everyone, BBC 100 Women, Safe in Scotland, YWCA GB, Gal-dem.com, Periodfutures.org, and Harasswatch.com to create editorial and portrait illustrations. She also self-published a book about 50 Inspiring Iranian women that was very well received.
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Roshi Rouzbehani illustration of Navid Afkari, Iranian wrestler which was convicted for the 2018 protests on alleged murder charges of a guard. Afkari stated in audio recordings that he had been tortured into making false confessions. His two brothers are currently in prison. He was executed on September 12th, 2020 at the age of 27.

07/22/2023

Photographing men, especially big groups of men, is always entering a tacit game for me.

There can be so much testosterone, machinist comments but also gentleness and seduction - it is a complex realm I enter on tip toes while faking some confidence.

Yet I love it. While women get daily comments about their bodies, I feel entering in this men’s arena with a camera creates a change in the dynamic of power. It reverses it.

No matter what they are saying to me, I direct them, and they are posing for me.

I remember, that day on the corniche, a XXL muscle man asked me if I had a boyfriend. To which I responded “ زوج عندي” a sentence that I know too well to prevent any flirt, and simply meaning “I have a husband”.

The man discredits it and replies it is not serious, and that HE could instead be my husband.

So I looked at the chest tattoo, reminded him of our discussion about our trips to Karbala and said :

“Imam Hussein is watching you, and I don’t think he would be so happy hearing this”

To which his whole crew applauded and laughed.

06/08/2023

🌐📸 The World Press Photo Exhibition 2023 is on the move! Now on display in Berlin and Amsterdam. Up next, we'll be opening doors in Mexico City, Mexico; Den Bosch, the Netherlands; Knokke-Heist, Belgium; Balingen, Germany; Auckland, New Zealand; Brisbane, Australia, and more! Visit the exhibition at your nearest city to witness the most important photojournalism and documentary photography from the last year.

Follow our calendar to see the latest location updates: worldpressphoto.org/calendar

06/04/2023

Colors Like Memories

Bushehr Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the south of the country, with a long coastline onto the Persian Gulf Some years ago, I…

05/03/2023

Rockets are fired by Palestinian militants toward Israel, in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 3, 2023.

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05/01/2023

05/01/2023 Members of the Halkevleri community (people's houses) protest in the streets of Istanbul on Labor Day. Istanbul, Turkey.

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04/03/2023

Every year on the 14th of Farvardin (the 3rd of April), more than 50,000 people from all over Iran go to the “Zeinal-khan” arena in Esfarayen to watch a wrestling match. This tournament is one of Iran’s most famous local sports, where Olympic athletes and world champions participate in the championship. “Choukha” is the name of the clothing that the wrestlers wear here, consisting of a short cape that wrestlers tighten with a white shawl.
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03/25/2023

On March 19th 2003, 10:16 PM, George W. Bush, the president of the United States declared at the oval office: “at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.”

On 20 March 2003 at approximately 02:30 UTC, at 05:34 local time, explosions were heard in Baghdad.

There have been between 275,000 and 306,000 Iraqi civilians killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion.
A precise death toll, though, is almost impossible to calculate.

On March 19th 2003, George W. Bush, finished the declaration saying: “the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail.”

The last US troops withdrew from Iraq on 18 December 2011.

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03/24/2023

March 23, 2023, Diyarbakir, Turkey. People celebrate Nowruz, the beginning of the Persian new year on the streets of Diyarbakir.
Nowruz is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and is celebrated by various ethnicities worldwide.

03/20/2023

Haft-Sin arranged by Iranian artist Hushidar Mortezaie, in Los Angeles, remarking some of the people who got killed by the Islamic Republic forces during the nationwide protests in Iran, since the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini.
Haftsin is an arrangement of seven symbolic items whose names start with the letter "س" (pronounced as "seen”). It is traditionally displayed at Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

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03/17/2023

Did you know some of the most powerful images of the Iranian Revolution are taken by professional photographers who are forced to remain anonymous?

The "Woman.Life.Freedom" exhibition tour will showcase the work of Iranian photojournalists who risk their lives to show the world the bravery of the Iranian people and the brutality of the regime. Your donation will help bring this exhibition to reality.

©️Photos by Iranian photographers

➡️Fundraiser link in the bio.

03/09/2023

Protesters, mostly women, shout slogans as they gather to mark International Women's Day in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Women in Turkey and their allies converged on a central Istanbul neighborhood to demonstrate for women's rights and protest the human-made toll of the deadly quake that hit Turkey a month ago.

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02/10/2023

Turkiye - Hatay

Being one of the deadliest quakes worldwide in more than a decade the death toll kept rising, approaching 20,000.
Thousands are dead and the search continues.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on February 10, 2023.

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02/10/2023

Turkiye - Diarbakir

Being one of the deadliest quakes worldwide in more than a decade the death toll kept rising, approaching 19,000.
Thousands are dead and the search continues.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on February 10, 2023.

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02/09/2023

Emergency rescue members search for people in a destroyed building in Al-Atareb and Al-Dana in the western countryside of Aleppo. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, killed more than 2,600 people in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on February 6, 2023. ©️

02/06/2023

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, killed more than 2,600 people in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria.
Syrian Civil Defense and people are searching and rescuing since Monday, January 6, for those who were trapped under the rubbles following the earthquake that hit northern Syria and work is still continuing in all affected areas.
At least 1,651 people were killed across 10 provinces of Turkey, with another 11,119 injured, according to the country’s health minister. The death toll in government-held areas of Syria rose to 968 people, with 1,280 injured, according to data from the Damascus government and rescue workers in the northwestern region controlled by insurgents. ©️

02/03/2023

At 9:44 PM, (18:14 GMT), on January 29th, 2023, an earthquake struck the city of Khoy in West Azerbaijan, Iran; with the magnitude of 5.9 on the richter scale.
3 people has been reported dead and 816 injured.

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01/30/2023

View of the bombarded (KDPI) headquarters in Koya district after the attack of The Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) with Several drone bombers and missiles. On September and October of 2022, the IRGC launched artillery, missiles, and su***de drone attacks against the headquarter of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) near Koya.

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12/31/2022

2022 YEAR IN PHOTOS

Middle East Images bring together photographers from the MENA region, giving a first-hand experience through their lens. Our goal is to give a visual narrative of local stories with a…

12/28/2022

Freedom

Some moments of life as a picture Why am I in this body? Why my body is different? Why am I not him and he is not me? Why is…

12/26/2022

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from our team at Middle East Images to you.
Being a curious eye, always looking for new stories, from a region relentlessly struggling with perils and adversities, we are trying to be authentic, reliable, and a credible storyteller.
To 2023. To truth.

12/26/2022

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from our team at Middle East Images to you.
Being a curious eye, always looking for new stories, from a region relentlessly struggling with perils and adversities, we are trying to be authentic, reliable, and a credible storyteller.
To 2023. To truth.

12/21/2022

Amid the criticism and debate surrounding the 2022 FIFA World Cup, we have rarely heard from people who live and work in Qatar. From workers and students to artists and community football coaches, GOALS is a year-long series in collaboration with The Sports Creative, Qatar Foundation, Generation Amazing, and Salam Stores. More than 40 people, representing 20 nationalities - the majority women - share their own stories of football, community, and life in Qatar in 2022.
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12/10/2022

On Friday December 9th, an emergency protest took place in front of the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the in New York against the ex*****on of and death sentences for other protestors in Iran.
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11/30/2022

Iran - US football match during FIFA World Cup 2022, Doha, Qatar.
The long political rivalry between the two countries, created a lot of tension, before, during, and after the match.
US won the game 1-0, and a lot of Iranian protesters cheered the US team, in response to the Islamic Republic’s severe crackdown, after the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests.
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11/30/2022

Iran - US football match during FIFA World Cup 2022, Doha, Qatar.
The long political rivalry between the two countries, created a lot of tension, before, during, and after the match.
US won the game 1-0, and a lot of Iranian protesters cheered the US team, in response to the Islamic Republic’s severe crackdown, after the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests.

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11/21/2022

Soccer match between England and Iran at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022.
England won the match 6-2. The participation of Iran’s national soccer team in The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, created a lot of controversies and tension in Iran, after the national team’s indifference toward the situation in Iran, after the death of Mahsa Amini and the following nationwide protests. Photos by

11/18/2022

Two girls, wearing traditional Kurdish dresses, not wearing hijab, are standing on the roof of a car, showing peace sign among people protesting at the funeral of Azad Hosseinpoor.
Azad got killed a night before on November 17th during protests in Mahabad.
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11/01/2022

An Iranian girl protesting the severe oppression and the crackdown in Iran, after the death of Mahsa Amini, during Halloween in Manhattan, New York City, October 31, 2022.

10/23/2022

People attend a protest against the Iranian regime, in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic republic's notorious "morality police". The 22-year-old died in Iran while in police custody on Sept. 16 after her arrest three days prior for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code.

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10/16/2022

Middle East Images on Le Point’s Cover
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“the Iranians, Heroines of Freedom” On the cover of Le Point magazine.

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10/01/2022

09/30/2022

Iranian woman burning her scarf, protesting the violation of human rights by Islamic Republic’s forces on the first day of nationwide protest after the death of Mahsa Amini, while kept in police’s custody.
Tehran, Iran, 2022