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[almakpoetry]

Jordanian Sun

Jordanian sun loves me so much

that it kisses me to the wounds.

In spring it’s tender in its diffident touch

In summer it burns with no rules…

It’s ancient companion of Jordanian lands

That nourishes soil with its power,

Forging the characters in yellowish sands,

Adamant, stubborn and dour.

Jordanian hearts, they beat with the sun,

They follow its pulse, with no doubt.

The Kingdom of Jordan with sun has begun.

Allegiance to it is avowed.

— ☙ AlMakPoetry ❧—

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Jordan through the lens of the great photographer Sergei Shandin, AirPano’s ground crew.

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Jordan through the lens of the great photographer Sergei Shandin, AirPano’s ground crew.

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This initiative gave me chills. Bravo!

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Young women hanging out at Sidi Bishr beach in 1959. Source: Foreign Policy

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Cairo through the camera of a brilliant photographer we work and cooperate with - of Ildar Yambikov©

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Life in a village in Sistan va Baluchistan province, Iran

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Pray for Palmyra

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Amazing oriental masterpieces by Austro-French painter Rudolf Ernst (14 February 1854, Vienna - 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses).

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Do you love Socotra as much as we do? If not – it was because you had not seen these photos before. Now you love it too!

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Matmata - is a small Berber speaking town in southern #Tunisia. Some of the local Berber residents live in traditional underground “troglodyte” structures.

The city was not generally known until 1967(!). And it was rediscovered by chance.

That year, intensive rains that lasted for 22 days inundated the troglodyte homes and caused many of them to collapse. The help was needed, so the delegation was formed and sent to the community center of the region, situated in a town of Gabès. The authorities were absolutely surprised, but they helped the Matmata Berbers and the above-ground settlement of Matmâta was built, but only a few of the families moved to the new surface dwellings, while most of the people continued their lives in re-built underground homes.

Today, Matmata is a popular tourist attraction, and most of the population lives on tourism and folklore exhibitions in their homes.

This the place made famous for the shooting some of the scenes in the Star Wars film.

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What do you imagine, when you read the news headlines devoted to Yemen? Definitely not this!

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Jews celebrating Sukkot in Libya

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☪OE✡IS✝

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Amazing doors of Morocco (part 3)

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Arabic proverb

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Faces of the Middle East: children