Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] Syria in the 40s
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:06:07 -0500
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I was in Damascus in 2005 for a conference of Christians, Muslims, and
Jews.  I didn't get to see much of the country since we were in meetings
most of the time, but I really need to go back and scan those slides.  I
lived in Iran in the 1970's and would love to go back again.  Iran is a
beautiful country of beautiful people.  Here are some of my photos from 40
years ago:

http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/Asia/Iran/Iran/3917425_zbkQNv#!i=229714857&k=LWDH5x6

Tina


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Damascus was always high on my list of places to visit, being the
> oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, but that looks
> indefinitely postponed as of now. (-:
>
> Guess I'll have to make do with a safe country like Iran (it really is
> very safe if you get media/government planted hobgoblins out of your
> head), with its incredible historic cities stretching back to the
> beginnings of civilization, in that region...
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> > Following on from Jayanand's link to Anzio, I saw another link to Syria
> in
> > the 40s on the Life website. Here it is.
> >
> http://life.time.com/history/syria-crossroads-of-middle-east-during-wwii/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1
> >
> > Fascinating, especially considering the current mess there. BTW I'd
> > recommend "A Line in the Sand" by James Barr which looks at the Sykes
> Picot
> > agreement which carved up the middle east in straight lines between the
> > British and the French and subsequently was the reason for inflaming
> many of
> > the issues there.
> >
> > Douglas
> >
> >
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-- 
Tina Manley
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