Damascus, the eye of the East
It’s not easy being paradise on earth in a country so often censured by the West…Arising out of the desert four thousand years ago, the capital of Syria again bats her eyelashes to seduce the voyager. Restoration of its palaces, enhancement of its mosques, redevelopment of its souks, Old Damascus is giving itself a beauty treatment.
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Aleppo, the spices’s provider
Although it may contend with its rival, Damascus, for the title of the oldest,still-inhabited city in the world, Aleppo has no cause to be jealous of the Syrian capital. A veritable human hive, the Vienna of Levant, commercially shrewd, music loving, gastronomic and refined, has never ceased asserting its ebullient occupations.
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Pascal Meunier – Portfolio Travel
The new Tripoli of Africa
For years Tripoli would make the headlines, under the rubric « troublemaker » in the so-called international scene. Vilified for a long time, the capital of Libya is finally freeing itself of its satanic reputation to today aspire to the title of mentor to the whole of the Mediterranean.
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Parution ROUMANIE – Hyderabad, India of tomorrow by Pascal Meunier
Stars of the Nile
Oriental dance in Cairo
Dreaded by men of faith, rooted within families or adulated by Westerners, belly dancing arouses argument,embarrassment and emotions. In Cairo, the bodies undulate in sensual curves… but the temple of this ancestral art is casting out more and more of its dancers.
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Harar, the revealed citadel.
Muslim wedge situated in the very Christian country that is Ethiopia, the Harar city has closed itself from the outside world for a thousand years.Trade exchanges with the Arabic Peninsula are over, and Harar is no longer well known as a dynamic Muslim teaching centre. The « jewel ofthe horn of Africa » keeps its treasures secret.
Those who will want to explore the Harar region will need boldness,tenacity and patience.
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Parution Japon – NEWSWEEK – Doha booming by Pascal Meunier
Doha booming.
Everyone is speaking of Dubai, but who knows Doha? The capital of Qatar is booming. Constantly under construction, Doha is flirting with the inordinate madness of Dubai… all while juggling with the conservatism of its neighbor, Saudi Arabia. A shopping paradise and financial stronghold, the future megalopolis is on its way to becoming an Eldorado of culture, sport and tourism, a Silicon Valley of the Gulf, still proudly attached to its traditions. It took centuries to build the megalopoles of today. It will have taken only a few years for Doha to become a leading player. It is here that tomorrow’s world is being built.
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Hyderabad: India of tomorrow.
Ambitious, the ultra-dynamic town of Hyderabad collects the charms to attract itself to the glances of the world. In spite of its preserving character and its situation in the middle of one of the poorest states of the country, it took the challenge to become the ambassadress of modern India…
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