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

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Qaddafi in the museum. But You should know that there aren't many posters of him in Libya! Of the arabic countries I've visited, only Lebanon has less posters and pictures of its leader, but probably because there's not just one - and there are flags of parties everywhere there.
I expected quite the opposite, but Muammar suprised me positively once again

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it was either Commodus or Septimius Severus, the emperor from Leptis Magna.

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more prehistorical drawings

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somewhere between Tunisia and Libya there are houses made in large holes in the ground, to protect people from the heat. It looks like this.

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a very old and tried camel

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Shanini village in Tunisia

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qasr awlad sultan or whatever

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one of byzantine capitels of Great Mosque of Cairouan (Al-Qayrawan), the first muslim capital of Africa (Al-Ifriqiyyah, which is old name of Tunisia and surroundings)

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the great mosque of Al-Qayrawan - the minaret

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forgive me, but I don't recall what was that. Someone's tomb inside for sure.

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Sidi bu Said (it should be Sayyid abu Sa'id probably, but the French caused much chaos in local names, frenchising dialectal names which were later arabised, so the original sound is sometimes hard to discover)

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a clocktower in Tunis

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Tunis. i don't recall anything I have visited there except for the suq, Dar Lasram and some tombs... Lets say that's Dar Lasram and hope nobody notices

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Tunis
one of the nice tombs