Dana Smillie

themes: passages

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

-T.S. Eliot

   
Karnak Temple.
  
Extras for a documentary film wait to perform in a scene at the pyramid of Dahshur.
     
  
   
A fishing boat at the end of the Nile.
  
A boy jumps into a cold-spring dating from Roman times.
     
  
   
  
The minaret and domes of the 14th century madrassa and khanqah of Sultan Barquq.
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
Blues diva Peggi Blu performs as part of the "Three Ladies of Blues" during the Dubai International Jazz Festival.
  
Bicycle mechanic.
  
Traditional, strong coffee is served inside a 'mudhief' in the marshlands of Iraq.
     
  
   
  
Old City
     
  
Yarn-dyers.