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The Mountaintop — قمة الجبل

January 11, 2012 at 01:12 · Filed under One Hour Photo, Uncategorized and tagged: cliff, gaze, girl, jebel hafeet, ledge, mountain, Oman, outlook, uae

The edge.
Jebel Hafeet, UAE

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Faces 4 (UAE)

January 8, 2012 at 01:08 · Filed under One Hour Photo and tagged: Camels, emirati kid, sunday outing, uae

At the Camel beauty contest.
Medinat Zayed, emirate of Abu Dhabi.

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Faces 2 (UAE)

January 6, 2012 at 01:06 · Filed under One Hour Photo and tagged: al dhafra, desert, emirati man, white

Medinat Zayed, emirate of Abu Dhabi.

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Faces 1 (UAE)

January 5, 2012 at 01:05 · Filed under One Hour Photo and tagged: al dhafra, emirati man, uae

Medinat Zayed, emirate of Abu Dhabi.

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Camel Beauty Contest — مسابقات جمال الجمل

January 2, 2012 at 11:22 · Filed under One Hour Photo and tagged: al dhafra, beauty contest, camel, liwa, Medinat Zayed, مسابقات, الجمل, الضفرة, الظفرة

Pageantry in the desert.
Camel beauty contest.
Al Dhafra Camel Festival, Medinat Zayed, UAE

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Twenty Tweleven

December 31, 2011 at 12:34 · Filed under One Hour Photo and tagged: 2012, emiratis, hajar, hiking, jabel hafeet, mountains, Oman, uae, ٢٠١٢

High points.
Overlooking the UAE-Oman Border and the Hajar mountains.
Jabel Hafeet, UAE

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December in Abu Dhabi: Santa in the Sand — ديسمبر في أبو ظبي : سانتا في الرمال

December 28, 2011 at 00:28 · Filed under Abu Dhabi, One Hour Photo and tagged: Abu Dhabi, christmas, desert, liwa, Philippines, sand, santa, uae, ديسمبر, سانتا

Around (everyone else’s) Christmas time, the UAE is stil tropical, still desert. But of course, Santa still comes to visit (admittedly from the Philippines).

Top: December sunset
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Middle: The road past Liwa to Mureeb
Western Regions, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Bottom: A visitor tells Santa that she just wants a picture with him for Christmas.
Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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NEWS: An Immensely Important Discovery

November 24, 2011 at 18:54 · Filed under One Hour Photo and tagged: amazing, belgium, billy club, brussels, discovery, sprouts, stalk

Last weekend I went as far into Iran as an American passport would allow me. The week before, I left burning tires in Bahrain to traipse around northern Iraq looking for kebab and Neandertal bones. But from all this searching, I have found nothing quite as miraculous as what I witnessed last night. The most important discovery of this November — nay, of this entire year — is this:

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