🇪🇬 The Architectural Elegance of Old Cairo, Egypt

🇮🇷 Alenush Terian (1920-2011), an Iranian astrophysicist of Armenian descent and the first female physicist in Iran to be appointed professor. 🔭 She played a crucial role in founding the solar observatory at the University of Tehran, headed the solar physics research group, and became the first scientist to teach stellar physics in Iran.

🇹🇷 Turkish girl looks out a window. Söğütköy, Muğla, 1980s.

🇮🇷🇲🇫 Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini in exile. France, 1978. A year later, the Iranian Revolution would bring an end to the Pahlavi monarchy and reshape Iran’s future.

🇬🇪 Chechen refugee family pictured in the Georgian village of Shatili, 1999. The Chechens are an indigenous North Caucasian ethnic group natively known as "Noxçi." Predominantly Sunni Muslims following the Shafi'i school, they have preserved a distinct cultural identity shaped by strong tribal traditions and centuries in the Caucasus mountains.

🇪🇬 Portrait of a Baby, His Father, and His Uncles, Alexandria, Egypt, 1950s.

🇮🇷 The Library Café at Iranmall, one of the world’s largest shopping malls, in Tehran, Iran.

🇾🇪 Eden Fines wearing a ceremonial bridal outfit inspired by the traditional dress of Yemenite Jews. Model Eden Fines is originally a Yemeni Jew.

🇮🇷 Imam Mosque, Isfahan, Iran

Child wrestlers Georgi Bibilauri (Georgia) and Djambulat Khatokhov (Kabardino-Balkaria) during training for and participation in a competition. Tbilisi, Georgia, July 2003.

Painting 'Mother and Child Before the Pyramids' by French Orientalist painter Émile Vernet-Lecomte (1872)

🇲🇦 Chefchaouen - Morocco