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Images from a revolution
All of these images were taken in Egypt throughout 2011. Some are of Tahrir Square during the January 25 revolution. Others were taken at the July 2011 protests. A few are examples of the amazing...
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Al-Quseir: A Place Apart
Al-Quseir is a town of skinny alleyways hemmed in by houses washed in a rainbow of watercolours, slowly peeling and fading away. Some places are more of an atmosphere than a set of...
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Images of Luxor
A Pharaonic playground of the highest order, Luxor is a tale of two shores severed by the sinuous curves of the Nile. Bite into a slice of provincial Egypt among the east bank’s frenetic sprawl of...
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The quiet side of Cairo
In my last post I talked about Cairo’s unending din; the constant roaring soundtrack that frays nerves and results in your normal voice becoming a shout. There are peaceful corners to the city known as...
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Jekyll and Hyde: snapshots of Beirut’s two sides
I love the juxtaposition of Beirut. All battle-scarred and weary on the one hand and flash-the-cash gaudy on the other. It’s a city where soldiers, slouching against tanks, still occupy street corners...
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Before; images of Syria
“When we cross the border can you guarantee my safety?” The American said. I rolled my eyes. “What do you mean?” “When we get to Syria. Am I going to be safe?” “Why wouldn’t you be safe?” “I’m an...
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Images of Petra
Who were the Nabataeans? Imagine what would happen if a bunch of wheeler-dealer nomads, with some seriously incredible ideas about hydraulics, decided to create a capital city amid a hidden canyon to...
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Images of another side of Cappadocia
Proving that even in a major tourist destination there is still ample opportunity to get away from the tour bus crowds, Mt Hasan stands regally in Turkey’s southern Cappadocia region, untouched by the...
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Beautiful Beiteddine
Abu Nasser pulled the taxi into the empty car park and made a theatrical swerve across the concrete. “Busy, isn’t it.” He joked. There were only two other tourists strolling around Beiteddine Palace...
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Images of Algiers
The Algiers kasbah is all white-and-blue loveliness that tumbles down the hill towards the shore. It’s a winding labyrinth of alleyways, rimmed by tall, narrow buildings, that lead you on a merry maze...
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Images of northwest Kenya
The landscapes are big-sky country at their most brutally raw. Moonscape plains of rock. Scraggly bare-branched trees. Hills that twinkle in mineral-rich hues of muddy green and red. And just when you...
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Inside the camel market
It ain’t for the squeamish. Birqash camel market, just outside of Cairo, stinks. The stench of animals swelters stagnantly in the heat until it rubs off on you. This isn’t a tourist attraction although...
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Cappadocia in winter
Cappadocia is beautiful at any time of the year but in winter its show-stopping landscapes take on an ethereal quality. In the valleys the rock cones are dusted with an icing sugar coating of snow...
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Life on Mars, in Egypt
I have just come back from Mars. Or, at least, a place so unearthly that it is what I imagine snapshots from a holiday jaunt to Mars – or Uranus, or Jupiter – would look like. Black pitted landscapes...
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North Cyprus, away from the beach
It may have a reputation as a cheap, package-tourism destination but there’s more to North Cyprus than first meets the eye. Click to view slideshow.
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Images of Al Qasr
Some places in the world are so imbued with a sense of history that you seem to have walked backwards to have arrived there. The old caravan town of Al Qasr in Egypt’s Western Desert is one of them....
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