Digital Archive of the Middle East

Items

• Photograph with annotation: "nomads [and] sheep trail on the high plateaus, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "nomads [and] sheep trail on the high plateaus, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981". Men and women in amongst black and white sheep with hillside in the background.
• Photograph with annotation: "nomads and their flock, region of Van, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "nomads and their flock, region of Van, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981". Flock of sheep winding its way across a valley floor, accompanied by person. Hillside sweeps upwards in background.
• Photograph with annotation: "nomads on the high plateaus of Van (region): cooking bread. Turkish Kurdistan, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated "nomads on the high plateaus of Van (region): cooking bread. Turkish Kurdistan, 1981".
• Photograph with annotation: "Nomads, seasonal move, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Nomads, seasonal move, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981". Flock of sheep interspersed with people on rocky hillside.
• Photograph with annotation: "on the road to Kars, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "on the road to Kars, Turkey, 1997". A herd of cows is crossing a road, holding up traffic. Shot from the cab of the vehicle, showing driver and passenger.
• Photograph with annotation: "Palace of Ishak Pacha, Dogubayazit, North Kurdistan, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Palace of Ishak Pacha, Dogubayazit, Turkish Kurdistan, 1981". Women and children sitting at the base of a rubble-strewn hillside overlooking an elaborate building.
• Photograph with annotation: "Parliament in Tehran. (In centre) Hachemi Rafsanjani, the president of the parliament. Iran, 1984.
  Photograph by Edith Maubec.
• Photograph with annotation: "PDK Peshmerga, Iraq, Kurdistan, 1973".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "PDK Peshmerga, Iraq, Kurdistan, 1973". Showing two PDK Peshmerga while aiming and shooting.
• Photograph with annotation: "Peshmergas at dinner. Iraqi Kurdistan".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Peshmergas at dinner. Iraqi Kurdistan". Three men sitting eating at a table. Main subject wearing headband with ammunition on his back.
• Photograph with annotation: "petrol sales on the route to Sulamenyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "petrol sales on the route to Sulamenyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq 1992". Man and boy funnelling petrol into cans / containers.
• Photograph with annotation: "petrol vendors on the road to Soulemania, Kurdistan, Iraq, 1992".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "petrol vendors on the road to Sulemaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, 1992". Petrol from a plastic container is being poured into a car using a funnel. Two men & two boys present.
• Photograph with annotation: "photographer in Nasiriyah, Iraq, 1971".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "photographer in Nasiriyah, Iraq, 1971". Man with tripod-mounted large format camera takes photo of seated man up against wall on tree-lined street.
• Photograph with annotation: "Prayer of women , from the side. Iran, December, 1985".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec.
• Photograph with annotation: "Rafiq Doust, minister of the Guardians of the Revolution, Iran, 1986".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec of Mohsen Rafiqdoust, co-founder and minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or Guardians of the Revolution, in Iran in 1986.
• Photograph with annotation: "Rafiq Doust, minister of the Guardians of the Revolution. Head of the Mostazafia Foundation. Iran, 1986".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec of Mohsen Rafiqdoust, Co-founder and Minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or Guardians of the Revolution, as well as Head of the Mostazafia Foundation, shown under a framed portrait of the Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922-2009). Taken in Iran in 1986.
• Photograph with annotation: "reed harvesting in the marshes of the South [Iraq], Iraq, 1973".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "reed harvesting in the marshes of the South [Iraq], Iraq, 1973". Silhouette of three people with bundles of reeds on their shoulders walk between waterways.
• Photograph with annotation: "reed mats in the marshes of Iraq, 1973".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "reed mats in the marshes of Iraq, 1973". Man carries reed mat on shoulder. Pile of mats in foreground.
• Photograph with annotation: "Saadoun Ghaidan, Interior Minister, Iraq, 1972".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Saadoun Ghaidan, Interior Minister, Iraq, 1972". Minister sits in a crowd, hands in lap, dressed in suit and sunglasses.
• Photograph with annotation: "Saadoun Ghaidan, Interior Minister, Iraq, 1972".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Saadoun Ghaidan, Interior Minister, Iraq, 1972". Three men sit in a crowd in suits.
• Photograph with annotation: "Saadoun Ghaidan, Interior Minister, Iraq, 1972".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Saadoun Ghaidan, Interior Minister, Iraq, 1972". Headshot of suited man in sunglasses sitting in a row.
• Photograph with annotation: "seasonal Kurdish camp in the region of Izmir, Turkey, 1998".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "seasonal Kurdish camp in the region of Izmir, Turkey, 1998". Women and children with containers by a water tap. Three children looking into camera.
• Photograph with annotation: "seasonal move with the Kurds. Van region, Turkey, 1981".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "seasonal move with the Kurds. Van region, Turkey, 1981". Hazy shot of people in amongst a flock of sheep on a hillside.
• Photograph with annotation: "Seasonal worker Kurd; 11 / 12 yrs old, who has never been to school, helping his family in the fields, in the Izmir region, Turkey, 1998".
  Phpotograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Seasonal worker Kurd; 11 / 12 yrs old, who has never been to school, helping his family in the fields, in the Izmir region, Turkey, 1998". Boy standing in field looking into camera with other workers in the background.
• Photograph with annotation: "separated Kurds from Iran in Haj Omaran, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "separated Kurds of Iran in Haj Omaran, Iraqi Kurdistan, 1991". Women & children standing behind a metal grid.
• Photograph with annotation: "Shoe polisher in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997".
  Photograph by Edith Maubec, annotated: "Shoe polisher in Dogubayazit, Turkey, 1997". Three men sit at a table whilst boy polishes the shoe of one of the men. Produce and people feature along the pavement.