Great Syria and surroundings - Middle East Pics Thread 2. Starting with Lebanon

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Iovis again

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Ania, a friend of mine, and capitel of a pillar. You can see how big it is.

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Inside Bacchus

Not a good photo, but I don't have a professional camera and I can't take good pictures opposing the sun.

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These are more informational than artistic picture

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There was a lot of cool stuff around - mosaics, sculptures, or this.

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as I have mentioned, my camera is not good for making evening picture. That's why my photos f.e. from Erzurum or Konya are not always great. But here is the crusaders' church, nowdays a mosque, in Bayrut (Beirut)

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I'm not a party guy, but I decided to go with my party-hungry friends to a club in Bayrut. I hope these two won't mind if I post their pic

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so-called Pigeon Rocks in Bayrut

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Personally I think it's one of the best pictures I've made in Lebanon. It's one of the Lebaneese emirs, and a monument made of Israeli tanks behind it. A lot of military around and actually You can't take photos, but our guide asked a young soldier just for one. I made two. When an officer saw me taking pics, he came and started shouting, but we were already gone. i just hope this nice soldier won't have any troubles because of me

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this was outside the museum of Heliopolis

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the last lebaneese pic - a part of fryz, probably of Iovis' temple, from Heliopolis.

I still haven't posted pics of my military march in Golan Heights, from Shayzar, Shmaymis (or whatever, this is ammiya version of its name, don't recall the real one),
Palmyra and the institute in Damascus.
I was supposed to visit some places this weekend, but a mean lady I rent a room at made some problems for me, I started looking for a new place until we settled a price for me and a friend to live there, so I didn't go anywhere.

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I think it is, though Israel has destroyed Beaufort castle during its previous invasion. It bombarded it, used it as its fort and blew it up when it was moving out.

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taking into account Israeli politics and that there's nothing to laugh about, I have to get to the point it's a diabolical-maniacal evil laugh or something

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The last meeting with teachers of my institute. The institute is allegedly directed by the ruling party, and perhaps because of that the teachers have a proper ideological stance.
I've heard many nice stories there.
Like: why America invaded Iraq?
Because global water level rises and ocean is going to caver America. Therefore, it decided to find new lands to settle on. That's also why it has to kill the current population of it...