Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/26

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Subject: [Leica] Syria in the 40s
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:13:03 -0500
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Thanks, Jayanand.  I'm way beyond remembering what I have and haven't
posted ;-)

Tina


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Tina,
> I think I have seen a good chunk of these photographs before, but that
> does not lessen the impact of the set - very nice, indeed.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> wrote:
> > I was in Damascus in 2005 for a conference of Christians, Muslims, and
> > Jews.  I didn't get to see much of the country since we were in meetings
> > most of the time, but I really need to go back and scan those slides.  I
> > lived in Iran in the 1970's and would love to go back again.  Iran is a
> > beautiful country of beautiful people.  Here are some of my photos from
> 40
> > years ago:
> >
> >
> http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/Asia/Iran/Iran/3917425_zbkQNv#!i=229714857&k=LWDH5x6
> >
> > Tina
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <
> jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Damascus was always high on my list of places to visit, being the
> >> oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, but that looks
> >> indefinitely postponed as of now. (-:
> >>
> >> Guess I'll have to make do with a safe country like Iran (it really is
> >> very safe if you get media/government planted hobgoblins out of your
> >> head), with its incredible historic cities stretching back to the
> >> beginnings of civilization, in that region...
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> >>> Following on from Jayanand's link to Anzio, I saw another link to Syria
> >> in
> >>> the 40s on the Life website. Here it is.
> >>
> http://life.time.com/history/syria-crossroads-of-middle-east-during-wwii/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1
> >>>
> >>> Fascinating, especially considering the current mess there. BTW I'd
> >>> recommend "A Line in the Sand" by James Barr which looks at the Sykes
> >> Picot
> >>> agreement which carved up the middle east in straight lines between the
> >>> British and the French and subsequently was the reason for inflaming
> >> many of
> >>> the issues there.
> >>>
> >>> Douglas
> >>>
> >>>
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Tina Manley
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