Middle East Cuts

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Bread seller in Damascus, circa 1910. Source: mideastimage.com

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Box in the shape of a duck (13th century BC). From Minet el Beida, Ugarit port, now Ras Shamra (Syria). Louvre Museum.

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Ernest R. Ashton, Evening near the Pyramids, 1898.

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Arab woman wearing a traditional mask in Muscat, Oman, c. 1919. Photograph by Frederick Simpich Sr. / National Geographic.

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The Al-Malwiya minaret at the Al-Mutawakkil Mosque, in Samarra, Iraq. Photograph by Karim Kadim / AP.

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View of the city and port of Alexandria, and the Isle of Pharos, Egypt. Illustration c. 1750.

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Photograph by Morteza Soorani, from the book Iranian Living Room (Fabrica, 2013).

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The round city of Baghdad in the 10th century, the peak of the Abbasid Caliphate. Illustration by Jean Soutif / Science Photo Library.

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Red Sea, 1860. By August H. Petermann, from Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt uber Wichtige Neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie (Volume 6, 1860).

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Jaffa, 1947. Photographer unknown.

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Pasargadae, Iran. The mausoleum of Cyrus in a cyanotype from a glass plate negative from the papers of Ernst Herzfeld. (Sackler Gallery of Art)

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Nasir al-Mulk mosque, Shiraz, Iran. Photograph by Miguel Quental, National Geographic Your Shot.

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Persian talisman. According to The New Inquiry, "a brass amulet to render its bearer more attractive and help her capture and subdue a lover. The lover is symbolized here as a beast of burden."

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Detail of a 1575 Persian Safavid miniature (Freer Gallery of Art).

(vía Flower Power | REORIENT – Middle Eastern Arts and Culture Magazine)

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Jebal Shugruf, Haraz Mountains, Yemen. Morning mist rising from the valley. Photo by Matjaz Krivic.

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reorientmag: Runway. Persian style (by Jalal Sepehr).