my trip in middle east (1)

well finally I am back home. I had a 16 days trip in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. Overall it was an amazing trip. during a short time i visited so many people and places. had extraordinary expriences and made new friendships to people from all over the world. this is post is dedicated to the people i met. well there are so many of them that are not in these photos such as Tareef's Cousin! in Aleppo(halab), or dear Ularel from Spain, Tzovig(america-armenia), Mike from NY, Ribal from Beirut, Swiss and Swedish guys in Damascus and others perhabs... well thanks to u all for making my trip an amazing one!

beirut: i met christina in beirut, we ate launch in her friend's house,

a lovely armenian family, tx carlos!

beirut: a friend of christina from Princeton, US. as far as I remember,

she was living in damascus

beirut: friends of christina, in a bar with live arabic dance music, midnight!

beirut: sarah invited me to his house, i met her nice family, they liked Khatami!

beirut: i dined with adrien! a french student studying social politics in france!

working on his thesis in beirut

damascus(dameshgh): I met felix there, a sociable german studying arabic.

i met many people in our night tours of old traditional houses together!

damascus: a girl from nepal is sitting at the back,

she is studying arabic because it is diffrent!

damascus: a multi cultural chat in an old house in damascus:

germany, palestine, italy, nepal, iran and maybe syria!

damascus: we visited an iraqi artist one night, her works were very nice.

i donno why she is missing in the photo!

damascus: a new yorker trying to cook some food! he was also studying arabic!

damascus: felix and a swedish guy trying to make the weeds ready to smoke!

aleppo(halab): an american backpacker is checking the old camera, which belongs to the a young french director, trying to make a documentry of syria

aleppo: a french wanderer! traveling for nine month around the world!

aleppo: drinking tea in the bazaar with tareef!

antalya: i was hosted by a lovely turkish couple for two days, i met their friends also.

izmir: Ebru and Aysegul cooked pasta+meat+chicken during my one night visit to their apartment, wish i could stay there a bit more.

izmir: a chat of socialogy, ebru, aysegul and their other classmate(sorry i forgot his name)

izmir: in aysegul's room

istanbul: ebru and her cousin, ebru is a young architect

istanbul: the french couple+karolina of poland!