magical middle east ⁎✦⋆*

Tihama, the Red Sea coast of Yemen, 1978. Photo by <n>Helen Keiser</n>.

<n>Jaious harvesting Olives</n> in the West Bank, 2003. Photo by <n>Alessandra Sanguinetti</n>.

From the series <n>Shopkeepers of Lebanon</n> by photographer <n>Elie Yobeid</n>.

A kite festival in Gaza, March 2012, organized by <n>UNRWA</n>. Photo by the <n>Associated Press</n>.

A 1959 photograph of the <n>Hôr marshlands</n> in Iraq by <n>Helen Keiser</n>.

<n>Red carpets drying, Iran, 1976</n>, a photograph by <n>Bruno Barbey</n>.

A desert landscape near Douz, Tunisia, photographed by <n>Bruno Barbey</n> in 1990.

Mosque in Matmata, Tunisia, 1990. Photo by <n>Bruno Barbey</n>.

A shop owner in Essaouira, Morocco, 1988. Photo by <n>Steve McCurry</n>.

Street scene in <n>Tarim</n>, Yemen, photographed by <n>Helen Keiser</n> in 1969.