Last updated 13 July 2004

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Lebanon

      

Is this the only Arab country without a vast expanse of desert?  Hmm....

I saw this MEA advertisement in summer 2000

and liked it so much, I posted it here

The old MEA logo was known to the Australians as

Four boomerangs and a sheep shearer's vest

Hector flew Fox-Mike for the last time on 30th December 1986 from Larnaka to Beirut

 

I don't want to make this a travel brochure so if you want a short introduction to Lebanon

click here for    Focus Multimedia Magazine Online

Working with MEA gained me an entrance to the Middle East where I developed an appreciation of  Arab culture

In particular, the following areas interest me:

Architecture:

 design features on buildings

Calligraphy:

 in the art form of Muslim world

Embroidery:

as a decorative art form

Language:

using the alphabet, numbers and some words

 A building left standing uncompleted for over thirty years is demolished to make way for new development along Beirut's  waterfront Corniche

Do you recognise where it is?

See more photographs in Photo Album

Useful Links

Good books to look at

Arab Gateway

Islamic Arts and Architecture

Palestian embroidery   Shelagh Weir and Serene Shadid

Arabesque decorative needlework   Ziva Ami

 

The home of Jezzine cutlery

with its distinctive white or black decorated handles