I am pretty sure, the topic has been briefly mentioned here before.. I thought I'd share some pix..
jedah by night
old jeddah
sisters? from Jeddah
old Jeddah again
this is a Mashrabiya,Shanashil (Arabic: مشربية or شناشيل) is the Arabic term given to a type of projecting oriel window enclosed with carved wood latticework located on the second storey of a building or higher, often lined with stained glass. The mashrabiy (sometimes shanshool or rushan) is an element of traditional Arabic architecture used since the middle ages up to the mid twentieth century
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Re: the towers of the house old & new jpg ابراج البيت
nostalgia.
actually, the abraj look more impressive on paper, the rest is nice.
on the other hand, I didn't get the idea behind the sisters pic, were they part of the landscape
Re: the towers of the house old & new jpg ابراج البيت
negative reps?
lol.. actually I put them to corroborate a point from another post, where an islamophobe claimed that an aussie woman was being persecuted for not wearing a face veil in Sauid Arabia
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
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