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Pakistan - An Afghan woman is weeping under her burka, as she can't stand the hard refugee life conditions any more. Out of the 1 200 000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan, 170 000 are living under tents in poor conditions at the Shamshatoo camp, 40 kms south of Peshawar. February 2001 -
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Pakistan - Afghan refugees in Quetta. Septembre. 2001 -
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Pakistan, Quetta - Women praying during a demonstration against the war in Afghanistan. September 2001. -
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Afghanistan - Afghan woman, and her family, seating in the back of a car are being stopped at a checkpoint linking the border town of Chaman to Quetta, Pakistan. Thousands Afghans have entered Pakistan fearing American retaliation following September 11th.2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. October 2001 -
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Afghanistan - Afghan women and children cross the front line as they flee Kunduz, still under Taliban control, to seek refuge by the Northen Alliance. - November 2001 -
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Afghanisan - The women's day at the Mazar Mosquee. Mosquees are a place where women can relax and meet other women who, once a week, go there with their children. September 2004 -
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Afghanistan- Women praying at Herat Great Mosque. October 2004 -
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Afghanistan - The humanitarian WASSA shelter in Herat, hosts 20 single women who did escape their home because of domestic violence. October 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Sakima, 25, married too young, beaten by her husband, has fled of her in-laws' house and found shelter for women alone in Herat. September 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Runaways or delinquents, out of prison or victims of domestic violence, 16 women cohabit in the shelter for women alone in Herat - September 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Herat Hospital for burned victims. At 25, Shaima has immolate herself in an act of despair and revolt against the abuse she received from her stepmother. Alone with her mother, she will die of septicemia a few days later. September 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Herat Hospital for burned victims. At 25, Shaima has immolate herself in an act of despair and revolt against the abiuse she received from her stepmother. Her face is covered with a veil to protect her from flying insects. September 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Shafiqa, 60, on her way from Maza-e-Sharif to Kabul with the hope to get a better diagnose and treatment againts her stomach pain. September 2004. -
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Afghanistan - Mazar-el-Sharif Mosque on wednesday, the day for the women. September 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Presidential Election day in Herat. For the first time since 20 years Afghan women are voting to elect the Afghan President. October 2004. -
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Afghanistan - Presidential Election day in Herat. For the first time since 20 years Afghan women are voting to elect the Afghan President. October 2004. -
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Afghanistan - For the first time in Afghanistan since more than a decade, women attend to a Presidential Election rally. Here in Guzjan, Shebergan province, women attend to War Lord Rachid Dostum's first rally to support him as he campaigns for the Afghan Presidential Elections. September 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Heading to a wedding party in Kabul, women of all ages get in a car, displaying different fashion styles: At left, a burka covering dark blue pants, follows a fancy dress worn by a 30 year old. No burka and even more style for the young adults at right, and a pink lace dress on a five-year-old girl. May 2002 -
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Afghanistan - A young woman dances in a room full of women during a wedding party. Weddings in Afghanistan are little business and often reveal a true face of a society that went through 25 years of war. May 2002 -
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Afghanistan - Wedding party in Kabul Hostel. June 2005 -
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Iran - Thousands of Shiite Women attend the Friday prayer at the Imam Reza mosque in Mashhad, on last Friday before Ramadan. October 2004. -
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Iran - Thousands of Shiite Women attend the Friday prayer at the Imam Reza mosque in Mashhad, on last Friday before Ramadan. October 2004 -
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Afghanistan - Kabul mixed university. Septembre 2004 -
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Iran - Female Police Academy. November 2004 -
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Iran - Shooting training at the Women police Academy of Tehran. November 2004. -
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Iran - 400 female students attend the theological school of Mashhad. This school is considered as one of the best in Iran. October 2004 -
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Iran - 400 female students attend the theological school of Mashhad. This school is considered as one of the best in Iran. Students are praying before lunch. October 2004 -
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Iran - At one of Tehran government's women well being center, a refuge for single women or women with social problems. Mrs Eftekhari, deputy at the Iranian Parliament wearing the Islamic Chador, is visiting the refuge, invited there for an Iftar party, during the holy month of Ramadan .October 2004 -
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Iran - At one of Tehran government's women well being center, a refuge for single women or women with social problems. Mrs Eftekhari, deputy at the Iranian Parliament wearing the Islamic Chador, is visiting the refuge, invited there for an Iftar party, during the holy month of Ramadan. October 2004 -
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Iran - Athena, 20, who was born a man. After a first surgery, Athena was allowed to change her legal status, and get a new passport with a new ID picture. Two years ago, "he", became a she. -
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Iran - Women in northen Tehran's shopping mall. October 2004 -
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Syria - Koweiti woman wearing Chanel scarf over chador with husband at Shrine of Zaineb, grand daughter of prophet Mohamed, few kilometers away from Damascus. March 2006. -
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Syria - Prayer at the Shrine of Zaineb, grand daughter of prophet Mohamed, few kilometers away from Damascus. March 2006. -
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Syria - Making of a video clip of Iraqi singer Ahmed Al Iraqi in the suburbs of Damascus. March 2006. -
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Iraq - Baghdad. Women are the most affected by war, because even as the bombs are falling, they still have to take care of the kids, cook the meals and wash the clothes. March 2003 -
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Iraq - Military parade in Mossul, few weeks before the Allies invasion of Iraq. February 2003. -
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Iraq - Funeral in a Shiite mosque north of Baghdad after the explosion of a US missile which made 52 victims. The women are responsible for washing the bodies of female victims before the men take them to the cemetery. March 2003 -
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Iraq - The body of a young girl, killed by the explosion of a US missile which made 52 victims, lies on a table at the funeral in a shiite mosque north of Baghdad. March 2003 -
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Iraq - Baghdad. With no more dictatorship and no more rules, Baghdad is in the lootersÕ hands and suffers of a growing sense of anarchy and uncertainty. April 2003 -
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Palestine - Palestinian women weeping in Jenin refugee camp after it's been destroyed by the Israelis. April 2002 -
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Palestiniennes au check point de Kalandia entree Ramallah et Jerusalem, contrl par l'arme isralienne. Palestine - Palestinians crossing process at Kalandia check point controlled by the Israeli Army to go from Ramallah to Jerusalem. April 2002 -
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Gaza - Hamas female on campaign attend a rally in Gaza city few days before the elections. January 2006 -
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Gaza - A Hamas woman supporter holds a Koran during a rally to support Hamas candidates for the Palestinian Legislative elections. January 2006. -
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Gaza - Daughter of Fatah candidate, Nadjat Al Astal covers her face with islamic veil to imitate women who only wears Islamic clothes, as her mother is campaigning for the Palestinian Legislative elections. January 2006. -
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Gaza - Omnidal Mariam Farahat, mother of martyrs Nidal, Mohamad and Rewaad (photos on poster behind) poses at home with her three sons who are still alive: left to right: Oussam, Moman and Houssam. Omnidal Mariam Farahat is the Hamas female leading candidate for the 2006 Palestinian Legislative elections. January 2006 -
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Gaza - At her home in Jabaliya, the mother of Mervat Massoud, a 18-year-old Palestinian women suicide bomber who blew herself up on November 6th. 2006, in the latest act of resistance among women to the occupation of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. November 2006 -
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Gaza - At Abu Hany's home during Iftar, break of a fasting day during Ramadan. His wife and his daughter are preparing diner in the kitchen holding an oil lamp as electricity goes on and of due to the damages done by Israeli air strike. September 2006 -
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Gaza - Inside the bathroom of a poor family in Khan Younis. January 2006. -
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Gaza - Hamas Member of the Palestinian Parliament Jamila Shanti poses in her home with three of her colleague who were part of the march she was leading to Beit Hanoun in an attempt to stop the Israeli military operation which left 65 dead in a week of siege. -
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Gaza - A women pulls rubbles out of her home in Beit Hanun after the Israeli Autumn Clouds military operation which left 65 people dead in a week time. November 2006. -
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Gaza - Children looking for a class room in Beit Hanun after the Israeli Autumn Clouds military operation which left 65 people dead in a week time. November 2006. -
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Jordania - Weekend by the dead sea. February 2006.
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Portraits and stories of Women in the Middle East -Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank.
The aim of this project is to un veil the Muslim Women society in this part of the world currently under great political and economical struggle, till war in Iraq, Gaza and Afghanistan. It is a journey through Islam, fundamentalism, war, domestic violence, education and youth..
War victims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, hold own by revolutionary and religious institutions in Iran, few women are inclined to embrace Western influence. In each country they are strictly condemned by laws or by moral for trying to escape Family code and drastic traditions. In this part of the world family and honor are to be first and only rule.
Each woman who accepted my camera with grace or naivety or often with the approval of a men has her own story to tell. From refugee, pilgrim, suicide bomber, teen age to Oriental baby dolls they tell about their condition, their rituals, their habits, their angers and their joys.