SLIDES

ALGERIA a few general shots of the M’zab area and the desert in the deep South (1982)
BAHRAIN Aerial photographies prior 1979

CANADA
QUEBEC : Magdalen Islands summer and winter shots. Harp seals on the pack ice during breeding period (female + pup, nursing)
NEWFOUNDLAND : Icebergs on the northern shore (Twillingate, Fogo, St John, Cape Spear, Trinity, Cape St Mary : gannets
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND : wide shots of Charlottetown, potatoes fields, churches, French River.
NOVA SCOTTIA : Sable Island, reproduction of the grey seals, wild horses
NEW BRUNSWICK : Lobster fishing festival at Shediac. Acadian cemetery at Bouctouche, Moncton, Grand Falls, Bay of Fundy
ONTARIO : Canada National Day celebration in Ottawa. Toronto : wide shots. Niagara Falls : the falls and orchards trees blooming
MANITOBA : Winnipeg, red sided garter snakes mating. Churchill : Polar Bears in winter and Beluga whales in summertime
SASKATCHEWAN : Cypress Hills, ranch, bisons, Maple Creek Rodeo, East End : T-Rex excavation. Canola’s fields and oil wells
ALBERTA : Tar sands in Fort Mc Murray, The Rockies, Grain elevators in the Prairies
BRITISH COLUMBIA : aerial shots of DowntownVancouver, Victoria : Quenn Elisabeth II visit, Chinese New Year, Sikh’s Elementary School. Squamish : loggers festival, helicopter logging, Salmon commercial fishing (Port Renfrew), Forest Fire in Ossoyous, Okanagan Valley.
NUNAVUT : Hall Beach, Foxe Basin, Walruses on ice floes. Walrus Island, Coats Island : Walrus’s rockies haul outs. Axel Heiberg Fossil Forest. Ellesmere Island : Muskoxen, rock ptarmigan, arctic hare, glacier, arctic plants. Pond Inlet : Canadian Rangers, Arctic Bay : Narwhals at the floe edge, Narwhals hunting, birds. Southampton Island : Bowhead whale cutting. Dale Popint and Beechey Island : remains of the Franklin expedition. East Bay (Southampton Isl.) : Eider ducks, snow buntings, red Phalarope, Herring gulls fight, Tundra Swan

CHINA : minorities of southern China (Xichuangbana) (1989)

COSTA RICA : Pacific shore, volcanoes

EGYPT
CAIRO : museum, pyramids, Louqsor, Karnak temple (1991)

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
ABU DHABI : pearl divers, aerial various shots, liwa oasis, Shaikh Zayed (1972 to 1976)
DUBAI : the city of Dubai before 1979, Shaikh Rashid. Aerial shots : all emirates before 1979

SPAIN : Andalousia : Ronda, Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada

FRANCE

GUADALOUPE

GUYANA (French)

HAITI

INDIA , Kashmir, Ladakh : 1978

IRAQ before 1980 : Kurdistan, southern marshes, holy shia’a Moslem shrines of Kerbala, Kufa, Najaf

ICELAND

ITALY Florence, Sienna, Rome, Naples, Paestum (2001)

JORDAN Wadi Moussa : Petra, Amman, Jerash (1998)

KUWAIT Before the Gulf War and before 1979

LEBANON

LUXEMBOURG

MOROCCO

MONGOLIA Nadam celebration, horses, yourts (1981)

NIGER Tuareg, Aïr mountain range, Temet sand dunes, Arakao, salt collecting at Tegguidam Tesemt (1984)

PALESTINE Bethleem, Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem

QATAR

CZECH REPUBLIC Praha, Budejovice, Telc (1995)

SAHARA

SAINT-PIERRE & MIQUELON

SULTANATE OF OMAN (1971 and 1988)

SYRIA (1999)
Aerials : Djebel Aruda, Euphrates river valley, Assad Lake, Arwad Island, Aleppo, plain between Homs and mountains
Archeological sites : Ugarit, Saladin Fortress (Qa’alat Salah ad Din)
Crac des Chevaliers (Crusaders Castle,Qa’alat Hosn), Jaber Fortress (Qa’alat Jaber), Mari, Doura Europos, Palmyra, Bosra, Apamea, Qasr Al Heyr Al Sharki, Qasr Al Hayr Al Gharbi, Amrit, Resafa, Castle Al Rahbeh,Halabya
Ground views : Djezireh area, Tell Halaf, Khabour’s springs, agriculture, archeological sites, Deir Ez Zor, Bedouins people, camels
Aleppo : Baron hotel, fortress
Basilica of Saint Simeon stylite. Hama : norias. Deir Marmoussa Monastery, Ma’alloula, Sednaya, St Georges anniversary (Wadi An Nasra)
Dead cities of Sergilla, Al Bara, Qalb Loze
Archeological sites : Palmyra, Bosra, Crac des Chevaliers, Ugarit, Fortress of Saladin, Apamea, Amrit, Qanawat, Massakeb
Damascus : Souk al-Hamadiyyah, Omayyad Mosque, Bab As Seghir cemetery, Saïda Zenab mosque, wide shots

MUSEUMS
Damascus: Mari’s treasure, Ugarit, Roman silver Helmet from Emes, bijoux Doura Europos, Astrolab
Aleppo : Ebla’s golden treasure
Tartus : Terra cotta and stone coffins
Palmyra : coins : Alexander the Great, Zenobia, Philip the Arab
Ma’aret An Noaman : mosaïcs
Suweida : mosaïcs and items
Shahba : byzantines mosaïcs

TCHAD

YEMEN (1972 à 1978)
Wide choice of pictures depicting daily life in villages at that time. Sana’a, Sa’adah, Taez, Hodeidah

YEMEN 2003 : SOCOTRA Island, Hadramaout, Sana'a

The following slides can be accessed at :
Bibliothèque Publique d’Information (Centre Georges Pompidou) à Paris (France) :
Islamic Art in Yemen. Life in Yemen
Islamic Art in Iraq. Bagdad Museum

Other movies and slides can be screened at : Institut du Monde Arabe, 1, rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard 75236 Paris Cedex 05 (France)

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