Ayahuasca (69)

The Banisteriopsis caapi vine is the main ingredient of the Ayahuasca brew. Ayahuasca means liana of the soul or spirit liana in the Quechua language. At the Takiwasi center in Peru, Doctor Jacques Mabit uses the Ayahuasca brew to heal people. © Hervé Merliac/Kaleidos images 

Ashura (101)

Nabatieh, Lebanon. Nabatieh is the capital of the Nabatieh Governorate in the south of Lebanon. Every year, on the tenth of the month of Muharram, the Shi'a Muslims commemorate the death of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad at the battle of Karbala (Iraq) in 680 CE. © Laurent Abad/Kaleidos images 

Haïti lumières (77)

 

Lebanese demonstration in Paris (35)

One of many demonstrations by Lebanese expats in Paris against the governmental corruption in Lebanon and for a secular state. October 27, 2019. © Tarek Charara/Kaleidos images 

Public transportation (38)

A personal vision of public transportations by Marie-Geneviève Burguière. 

Saving the Iris Cedreti (56)

Iris cedreti Dinsmore belongs to the Oncocyclus irises, a group of "royal irises" endemic to the Near East and known since antiquity. It grows in the wild on one stretch of the Mount Lebanon range, between 1,200 and 2,000 metres, alongside three other irises found nowhere else but Lebanon. Its single-bloom-per-stem flower stands out for a near-white background entirely veined in dark purple to black, unlike the more evenly coloured garden irises. Growing from a short rhizome rather than a bulb, it goes dormant through summer before flowering again in May. Listed as critically endangered by the IUCN, more than half of its habitat is threatened by the Cedrar project. Doctor Youssef Tawk has spent years working to save it. 

The horsemen of Djougou (399)

Legend has it that in the seventh century a group of horsemen fled the Islamization of Mecca and, over the centuries, found themselves in Africa. They took with them their equestrian traditions and their love for horses. © Tarek Charara/Kaleidos images