Abu Dhabi Center for Photography showed photos of the life of the Arab world in the 19th and 20th centuries

The Arab world is fraught with many curious and amazing puzzles for Westerners. Life, mentality, laws and traditions of the Middle East cannot but carry away - this is very unusual beauty, strength and energy, which is difficult for representatives of other cultures to understand and just as difficult to ignore.

Akkasah, the center of photography at New York University in Abu Dhabi, seeks to make Middle Eastern culture more accessible, introduce other peoples to it, show its rich history and moments of transformation. The center owns tens of thousands of pictures about the life of the Arab world. Recently, 9,000 of them have been digitized and shared. Let's see what women in the Middle East looked like in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Dancer in front of the curtain, Egypt. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Portrait of Bebe Adham, belly dancer, Egypt. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Woman with a neckline. The city of Alei, Lebanon, on August 8, 1956. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Woman with a jug for water, Egypt, 1923. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Cairo, Egypt, 1924. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

A young woman in a striped dress and a bead necklace. Port Said, Egypt. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Ramses Photo Studio, Cairo, Egypt, 1926. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Joseph Max Lichtenstern Family Series. Four dancing girls on a small stage in the garden of the villa Austria. Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Joseph Max Lichtenstern Family Series. Four dancing girls on a small stage in the garden of the villa Austria. Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

Joseph Max Lichtenstern Family Series. Woman on stage with an umbrella. Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. Collection of Yasser Alvan.

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