Multicultural meeting and market places, the souqs and bazaars in the Islamic metropolises make up the heart of those cities. In their unending meanders,the vendors pass down their know-how since centuries ago. In a day when everything must be quick and modern, what’s left of these chaotic realms with their nonetheless well-established codes?

Photographs by Pascal Meunier/LightMediation Text by Eve Gandossi

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For some years now, Yemen has been listed as a high-risk destination.In reality, only Mareb, Saada and the region of Hadramaout are dangerous. Traveling in Tihama presents no risks. Here, there are neither Kalashnikovs nor djambias…Tihama: Yemen’s oasis of serenity.

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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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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.

Photos by Pascal Meunier/LightMediation Text by Maud Tyckaert

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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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