Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Photograph with annotation: "the Saint Cross Armenian church on Van Lake, Akdamar, Turkey".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Saint Cross Armenian church on Van Lake, Akdamar, Turkey". Carvings in stone blocks showing a water-based scene and several figures.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Saint Sophie Church, Trabzon, Turkey".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Saint Sophie Church, Trabzon, Turkey". Zoomed-in perspective of ornately carved archway.
• Photograph with annotation: "the secondhand clothes market in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the secondhand clothes market in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997". Men and boys gathered around tables.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Security Headquarters prison in Sulemanyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Security Headquarters prison in Sulemanyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". A man points to inscriptions on the wall.
• Photograph with annotation: "the sheep near Dogubayazit, Ararat, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the sheep near Dogubayazit, Ararat, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981". Sheep scattered across a sparse landscape which rises into hills and a snow-capped mountain in the distance.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Sododirate oil well, first drilled 20th July 1972, Iraq".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Sododirate oil well, first drilled 20th July 1972, Iraq". Concrete well head surrounded by wire fencing, flanked by two flags and signs.
• Photograph with annotation: "the spring at Dicle, 7km from a settlement, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the spring at Dicle, 7km from a settlement, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". Water channel flowing from dual archway with small group of women and children.
• Photograph with annotation: "the spring of Dicle (Piran), Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the spring of Dicle (Piran), Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". Water channel flowing from dual archway with small group of women and children.
• Photograph with annotation: "the street in Dicle (Piran), Turkish Kurdistan, 1998."
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the street in Dicle (Piran), Turkish Kurdistan, 1998." Line of men sit up against the building fronts, in the shade, on a street.
• Photograph with annotation: "the street in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated "the street in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997". Men and four sheep outside shop fronts in a street
• Photograph with annotation: "the street in Dogubayazit, Turkish Kurdistan, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the street in Dogubayazit, Turkish Kurdistan, 1997". Men sitting at tables next to a wall with inscription starting with 'FOTOKOPI'.
• Photograph with annotation: "the streets in Baghdad, Iraq" [showing political display].
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the streets in Baghdad Iraq" [showing political display]. Focus of photo on large three dimensional display decorated with flaming torches and political slogans written in Arabic & English.
• Photograph with annotation: "the town of Batman, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the town of Batman, Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". Street scene showing two men on motorcycle with lorries, high-rise buildings and BP petrol station in background. Shot through cracked windscreen of vehicle.
• Photograph with annotation: "the trial of Ozgurluk in Dyarbekir; Mehdi Zana (central figure), the former mayor at a military tribunal, Turkey, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the trial of Ozgurluk in Dyarbekir; Mehdi Zana (central figure), the former mayor at a military tribunal, Turkey, 1981". Rows of seated men in suits, with cropped haircuts. Men in uniform stand behind.
• Photograph with annotation: "the trial of PKK at Dyarbakir in a military tribunal, Turkey, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the trial of PKK at Dyarbakir in a military tribunal, Turkey, 1981". Man in suit stands behind railings, in front of microphone with uniformed men along the wall and men sitting in rows behind.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Turkish Army in Kirmizikopru, [a] village in Dersim [Tunali], Turkish Kurdistan, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Turkish Army in Kirmizikopru, [a] village in Dersim [Tunali], Turkish Kurdistan, 1998". Framed through vertical bars in foreground, buildings sit at the foot of a slope.
• Photograph with annotation: "the village of Tur Abdin, Mardin, Turkey, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the village of Tur Abdin, Mardin, where little by little, the houses are abandoned due to the war between the PKK and the Government of Ankara. Turkey, 1998". Remnants of stone housing and rubble provide a backdrop. Men and women standing in the foreground.
• Photograph with annotation: "the Zikr of the Dervishes, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "the Zikr of the Dervishes, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1992". Men sitting in circle.
• Photograph with annotation: "Theology school in Qom. Iran, 1985".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec.
• Photograph with annotation: "Three Kurdish Peshmerga, Iraq, 1973".
  Phtograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Three Kurdish Peshmerga, Iraq, 1973". Showing three Peshmerga running with their guns.
• Photograph with annotation: "Training of the Peshmerga, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1973."
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Training of the Peshmerga, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1973." A group of PDK Peshmerga lying on the floor, aiming rifles.
• Photograph with annotation: "travelling salesmen in a cafe in Kars, Turkey, 1997."
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "travelling salesmen in a cafe in Kars, Turkey, 1997." Two men sitting at a table with display boards of watches. Other cafe customers sitting in background.
• Photograph with annotation: "Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Turkey, 1997". Man points past the camera whilst sitting next to cup in saucer and ashtray.
• Photograph with annotation: "Turkish Kurdistan".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Turkish Kurdistan". Man putting hand out to sheep. Magazines in rack and posters on corrugated wall behind.
• Photograph with annotation: "Turkish lorries on the Iraqi border, Turkey, 1995".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Turkish lorries on the Iraqi border, Turkey, 1995". Long straight road disappearing into distance. Lorries line the road either side. Perspective taken form front seat of car through windscreen.