Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Photograph with annotation: "Sirnak town centre, Turkey, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Sirnak town centre, Turkey, 1998". Road with people and cars, winds past buildings with a large mounted banner featuring prominently in the foreground.
• Photograph with annotation: "soldiers in Yuksekova, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998."
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "soldiers in Yuksekova, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998." Four men in military uniform sit outside a shop with rifles and bags. Pedestrians in background.
• Photograph with annotation: "the afternoon in a village in the East, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the afternoon in a village in the East, Turkey, 1997". Two men play board game with other men watching and sitting close by.
• Photograph with annotation: "the afternoon in Okacli, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the afternoon in Okacli, Turkey, 1997". Two men playing board game, with other men watching on and others sitting in background.
• Photograph with annotation: "the afternoon in Okacli, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the afternoon in Okacli, Turkey, 1997". Line of men and a boy against a wall with closed shutters.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Allies arriving in Shaqlawa, being welcomed by the Kurds. Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Allies arriving in Shaqlawa, being welcomed by the Kurds. Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Helicopter gunship landing in rural landscape with men onlooking.
• Photograph with annotation: "the arrival of a family from Diyarbakir, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998."
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the arrival of a family from Diyarbakir. The Kurds displaced from their villages, settling in the towns. Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". People deal with items on a van which is parked in a narrow street between two multi-level buildings.
• Photograph with annotation: "the bazaar in Hakkari, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the bazaar in Hakkari, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". Men sitting outside shop fronts. Figure standing in doorway of shop front with clothes hanging outside.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Bomb damage to the Observatory on Mount Korek, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Bomb damage to the Observatory on Mount Korek, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Men standing on girder framework large blast hole in domed roof. Man in foreground looking on.
• Photograph with annotation: "the border, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the border, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". A queue of lorries along a road, stretching into the distance. Shot taken from inside vehicle.
• Photograph with annotation: "the bus station in Kars, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the bus station in Kars, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". People sitting and walking outside buildings with text painted on the walls.
• Photograph with annotation: "the campaign for general elections, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the campaign for general elections, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992". Large poster and crowd gathered beneath.
• Photograph with annotation: "the championships of Kirk Pinar in Edirne Turkey, showing a guilty commissioner taken away by the police".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the championships of Kirk Pinar in Edirne Turkey, showing a guilty commissioner taken away by the police". Man being escorted by armed, uniformed men in from of a stadium crowd.
• Photograph with annotation: "the championships of Kirk Pinar in Edirne, Turkey".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the championships of Kirk Pinar in Edirne, Turkey". Two men wrestling in front of a crowd. Other wrestling pairs in background.
• Photograph with annotation: "the championships of Kirk Pinar, in Edirne, Turkey".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the championships of Kirk Pinar, in Edirne, Turkey". Man lying on back on grass, one hand on chest.
• Photograph with annotation: "The crowd of volunteers of the "Caravan of Karbala", leaving for the Front. Tehran, Iran, December, 1985".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec of a group of Iranian volunteers - the 'Caravan of Karbala' - leaving from Tehran for the frontline in December 1985, during the Iran-Iraq war
• Photograph with annotation: "the departure of Basij volunteers for the Front at Qom. Iran, 1985".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec showing the departure of members of the Sâzmân-e Basij-e Mostaz'afin (سازمان بسیج مستضعفین, 'The Organization for Mobilization of the Oppressed') for the frontline of the war with Iraq. Qom, 1985.
• Photograph with annotation: "the deployment of troops to a road-block in Hakkari, Turkish Kurdistan, Turkey, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the deployment of troops to a road-block in Hakkari, Turkish Kurdistan, Turkey, 1998". Military vehicles and personnel next to buildings. Hills as backdrop. Perspective from inside a vehicle.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Dervishes meeting, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Dervishes meeting, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992". Group of males standing & sitting.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Dervishes meeting, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Dervishes meeting, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992". Boy sitting in group with snake on his head.
• Photograph with annotation: "the destruction of a village, Iraqi Kurdistan".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the destruction of a village, Iraqi Kurdistan". Man shovelling rubble outside a house. Children look on from house.
• Photograph with annotation: "the distribution of water to Diyarbakir, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the distribution of water to Diyarbakir, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
• Photograph with annotation: "the electoral code, presented by a Judge in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the electoral code, presented by a Judge in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992". Man sitting down holding up card with arabic writing to the camera.
• Photograph with annotation: "The fountain of the 'saved' in the cemetary of the martyrs of [paradise] Behesht i Zahra. Iran, 1984".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec of 'The fountain of the Saved' in the martyrs' section of Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran, where large numbers of Iranian soldiers killed during the war with Iraq are buried.
• Photograph with annotation: "the funeral sanctuary of Nemrut Dagi, Turkey".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the funeral sanctuary of Nemrut Dagi, Turkey". Close-up of carving of heavily-weathered head of figure.