Seven year old Arzo, The Ashuqan School
“The Taliban was the enemy of education, particularly for women. I am trying to bring the pupils from the darkness to the light.”
- Khaliq Dad, 42, principal of the Ashuqan School, Kabul, Afghanistan
Photo by James Mollison
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Here’s a fun fact, this sassy Captain Jack Sparrow of Jordan, comes from the Bedul or indigenous people of the Petra basin. These people make up a population of 1,000 in Petra and live traditionally to this day. Their homes are goat hair tents and empty Nabataean tombs.
“A significant facet of the Bedul existence is their conflict with the Liyathnah, a neighboring tribe settled in the town of Wadi Musa, located just outside of the Petra Basin. The Liyathnah are able to enjoy the benefits of the current touristic and industrial development of the area. A construction boom in Wadi Musa during the past 10 years has transformed that small village into a burgeoning town studded with hotels, restaurants, travel offices, and souvenir bazaars. This conflict, dating at least to the early 20th century, ensures there is little opportunity for Bedul participation in the Wadi Musa boom.
The conflict between the Bedul and the Liyathnah escalated over the years as a consequence of tourist competition and differential access to education and marker resources. The Bedul’s involvement in tourism, although traditional and stable, remained relatively insignificant, restricted to selling souvenirs and refreshments in primitive, temporary stalls, providing guide services for extended trips, and a limited participation in the horse rental for tourists, and enterprise also dominated by the Liyathnah. The Bedul provided the labor for almost every archaeological project in Petra, and many became skilled excavators. In spite of these toeholds, the isolation of the Bedul is exemplified by popular origin myths that claim only recent arrival of the Bedul to the Petra area, or recent conversion to Islam. Critical evaluation of the evidence suggests that neither story is true, but such myths serve as devices to diminish Bedul ethnic stature.”
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yeah, what if…
THIS ^^^
can i reblog this a bajillion times
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Admiring Lake O’Hara from Opabin Prospect in Yoho National Park, Canada (by Cormac).
untitled by Ross M Jenkinson on Flickr.
Awful!! They do that to many trees in my street to keep the wire safe…a sore to the eye
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Just posted a GIF (Taken with GifBoom)
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