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Turkey-Iran border (from Turkey pointing toward Iran), May 2009

 

 

 

 

Mirhabs, Majid-i-Imam and Friday Mosques;  Isfahan, Iran 2014

 

 

 

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Minarets of Cairo, Egypt, from Citadel, December 2008; typical street in old Islamic Cairo, December 2008.

 

 

 

 

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Zakho, Iraq, May 2009; Mardin, Turkey, 2009

 

 

 

 

Tehran, Iran    March 2014

 

     

 

 

 

 

                                          

 

Alexandria, Egypt   Synagogue

 

 

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hiking among endless sand dunes in Sahara Desert near Douz, Tunisia, December 2008; tourist in front of Great Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Khufu, Giza, Egypt, January 2009

 

 

 

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Rwanda “land of a thousand hills,” moving on from the 1994 genocide, August 2008

 

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Schoolboys at Naurei Primary School, Tanzania, July 2008; schoolchildren, Kakooko, Lake Bunyonyi area, Uganda, August 2008

 

 

 


Girl in Babilla (she didn’t know her age) Ethiopia 2014

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Children in Harar.  Ethiopia, April 2014

 

 

Yazd, Iran     March 2014

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Top:: children in Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, occupied Palestine at time of first intifada. Below: peace demonstration near Ramallah.

 

Dialogue of Civilizations.  Qom, Iran.  March 2014

 

 

 

 

 

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Jerusalem – land of 2 peoples

Some of my Favorite Quotations

My god-daughters, Benna and Mira

Benna (on right) is a fourth-year student at the University of Chicago, Mira (on left)  is in high school in Durham, NC

Help a School and Needy Children in Uganda

Robert Frost on how the world may end
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Selma Baumgarten Scholarship for Students in Need

Please consider applying if eligible or contributing if able..

 

Pico Iyer’s full essay, “Why We Travel”

 

Travel photo blogs spring 2009:

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Link to East Africa Shutterfly photo page, summer 2008

 

 

 

 

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