Luoxiang Town
Luoxiang Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 8, 2019 This is the Nineteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Luoxiang Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 8, 2019 This is the Nineteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Xijiang (Miao) Town, Leishan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited December 11-12, 2014. This is the eighteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns…
Defeng [Dong Administrative] Village, Leidong Yao and Shui Ethnic Township, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 8-9, 2019. This is the s…
Shuanglang [Bai] Town, Dali [County-Level] City, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China (2013). Visited December 11, 2013. [These images are from 2013, but Shuanglang was also visited Ma…
Gaodang [Buyei, Buyi] Village, Ningxi Subdistrict, Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Anshun [Prefecture-Level] City, Guizhou, China. Visited March 15, 2015. This is the tenth post in t…
Lijiang [Old] Town [a.k.a. Dayan Old Town], Gucheng District, Lijiang [Prefecture-Level] City, Yunnan, China. Visited June 6, 2023. This is the eighth post in the series: Villages and Towns…
Manjinghan [Dai] Community [a.k.a. “Manjinghan Village”], Gasa Subdistrict, Jinghong [County-Level] City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 25, 2…
In Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand, Eli Elinoff explores citizenship struggles and the political engagement of residents living in Northeastern Thailand. Unlike tra…
This is a fabulous new book from the University of California Press discussing photographs from late 19th and early 20th century Palestine from seven notebooks by Wasif Jawhariyyeh…
the official website is https://www.neom.com/en-us Long before Abraham/Ibrahim left Ur of the Chaldees for the promised land and became the ancestral icon of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, there…
This exquisite film was produced in 1973 and filmed in 1972, thus representing Yemen half a century ago. It is now available on Youtube. The filmmakers were Karen…
Here is a very useful source for downloading pdfs of Arabic texts on a wide range of subjects. Check it out here: https://ebook.univeyes.com/disciplines
Check out this website for a number of photographs of Cairo in the early part of the 20th century.
This is a beautifully filmed and played Youtube video of Lebanese music performed in the ruins of a temple in Lebanon.
mid-19th century view of Jeddah from Richard Burton’s travelogue The current de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, MBS, has promoted a major development scheme entitled Vision 2030. This…
Interview by Lynda Chubak https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-construction-of-equality Lynda Chubak: Bringing together architecture, urban planning and anthropology, you trac…
My friend, the historian G. Rex Smith, has recently translated into English a marvelous travel diary by the French military official and traveller Pierre Loti (1850-1923). It is…
There is a new resource regarding the study of Egypt from the start of the Islamic era until the present at H-Egypt.
A richly illustrated book in French from 1887 on Iraq and Persia has an incredible number of illustrations. The book can be downloaded here. I attach some of…
Nice site with photos of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922.
Here are several early 20th century postcards showing life in and around Baghdad.
Baghdad was featured in a number of early 20th century postcards. Several of these were printed by A.a.K Naman… Here are images of two of Baghdad’s mosques.