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Couple watching sunset
Al Azhar park, Cairo, sunset. 10 minutes or so before the call to prayer went up. One of the best places I've found in Cairo to spend sunset.
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Uploaded on Feb 13, 2008
Upper Egyptian
I photo stalked this guy in a second-hand clothes market in Cairo.
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Uploaded on Feb 13, 2008
Ashura - Self Inflicted Ritual Knife Wounds
This only took a few minutes of pretty frantic beating. Saieda Zeinab Mosque, Damascus, Syria.
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Uploaded on Jan 21, 2008
Blood Droplet
This drop of blood landed on my face during the Ashura.
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Uploaded on Jan 21, 2008
Knives meet Back
Knives hitting back during the Ashura (Saeda Zeinab Mosque, Syria)
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Uploaded on Jan 21, 2008
Blood and Scars
The blood and Scars from ritual self-inflicted knife wounds - Ashura ceremony. Saieda Zeinab Mosque, Damascus, Syria
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Uploaded on Jan 21, 2008
Detail - Blood on Ashura Knives
There was one man who held all the knives and handed them out when they were needed.
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Uploaded on Jan 21, 2008
The Ashura Knife Holder
There was one man who held all the knives and handed them out when they were needed.
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Uploaded on Jan 21, 2008
Ashura - Starting Young
About 30 seconds after I took this photo, he beat himself with the knives - not hard enough to do as...
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Uploaded on Jan 21, 2008
Spinning Dancer
She was suspended 3 metres above the ground, dancing around a great big blue balloon, during the...
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Uploaded on Jan 15, 2008
People Beating Themselves...
