A cleaner appears as a shadow (Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi)
Visitors at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque (Abu Dhabi)
A cleaner in the washroom (Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi)
The banalisation of art & photography (Louvre, Abu Dhabi)
Window cleaners (Abu Dhabi)
Pilgrims touching the Stone of Anointing (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel)
Two boys light candles (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel)
Choral (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel)
Illumination (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel)
Man reading newspaper (Jerusalem, Israel)
A well-nourished priest (Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, Israel)
Patriotic underwear (Jerusalem, Israel)
Our father (Abu Dhabi)
A smile from a limousine (Oman)
Man on the Mutrah fish market (Oman)
Giant treveally (Mutrah fish market, Muscat, Oman)
Shrimps (Mutrah fish market, Muscat, Oman)
Waiting for the right fish (Mutrah fish market, Muscat, Oman)
Catch of the day (Mutrah fish market, Muscat, Oman)
Sharks (Mutrah fish market, Muscat, Oman)
A barrow with tuna and a drunken fisherman (Mutrah fish market, Muscat, Oman)
Walk by (Muscat, Oman)
Tailors (Muscat, Oman)
Women on a souk (Muscat, Oman)
Baloons (Muscat, Oman)
Two men walk through a souk (Muscat, Oman)
Negotiation (Muscat, Oman)
Street food in a narrow alley II (Dubai)
A man on a passenger ferry (Dubai)
The Middle East is a hot area. And when I say hot I do not mean the temperatures alone, but also them. The whole region offers much to see and to learn, a huge cultural diversity, extremely friendly people, a fine cuisine, history and certainly a fundamentally high present relevance due to the geostrategic location of its countries. My very own journey went through Oman, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Israel – partially several times. Historically it is hard to understand why this region and the people living there have partially such a big discredit in the western hemisphere. This feeling I do not had for the first time in my life and with other regions & countries – media? Where ever we travel we may need to keep in mind one thing: Get your own idea.