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  • Conflict erupts after buyers and sellers fail to agree on prices at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, makes bread at his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Truck drivers enjoy a mid-morning meal of sheep meat, potato, onion, tomato, and flat bread in a rustic restaurant stall at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works as a broker. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah negotiates with buyers while holding a camel by the tail at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah drives a camel at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (Saleh Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Akbar Zareh with his typical day's worth of food at his bakery in the province of Yazd, Iran. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is displayed at the Zayandeh River bridges in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah marks a camel for easy identification at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt.  (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Two visitors standing at the  Mount of Olives, Israel, look out over the cemetery toward the gold-leafed Dome of the Rock, the most famous Islamic monument in the Old City of Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah (second from left) uses his brokering skills to end an argument and finalize a sale at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah uses his brokering skills to end an argument and finalize a sale at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds.
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  • Akbar Zareh, who has worked in a bakery seven days a week since he was a young boy, forms dough in his bakery in Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Camel brokers grab each other's robes as conflict erupts after they failed to agree on prices at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works.   (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Brokers negotiate at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah (center, pointing) works.  (Saleh Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Domesticated since 2000 BC, camels are used less as beasts of burden now, and more for their meat. Because they can run up to 40 miles per hour for short bursts, dealers hobble one leg when they are unloaded at the Birqash market. They are marked with painted symbols to make them easier for buyers and sellers to identify. Both brokers and camels have a reputation for being surly, and the brokers don't hesitate to flail the camels with their long sticks to maintain their dominance..
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  • A 76-year-old weaver works in a cave workshop in Na'in, Iran, making a camel hair cloak for a cleric. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Akbar Zareh takes a break from the hectic schedule at his bakery in the province of Yazd, Iran to fix his head scarf. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah negotiates with buyers at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 165 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah with his day's worth of food at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 3200 kcals.  He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds. Contrary to popular belief, camels' humps don't store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah grabs the wrist of a camel seller, using his brokering skills to end an argument and finalize a sale at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • An elderly Iranian man on the  street in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Conflict erupts after buyers and sellers fail to agree on prices at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt, where camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah works. (Abdul Fadlallah is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Iranian boys sit around a fire near the abandoned Zoroastrian towers of silence in the city of Yazd, Iran.  Zoroastrians brought their dead to towers of silence, where their bodies would be eaten by birds before the practice was outlawed by the Iranian government.  The bodies of the dead were considered unclean by Zoroastrians and so corpses were put atop the towers (often hilltops) so that the earth would not be polluted by the remains. Today Zoroastrians in the community are buried in a nearby cemetery , although placed so that the body does not touch the earth.
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