A favorite restaurant of mine in Jeddah is Maison de Zaid.  It offers delectable specialty desserts in addition to a full menu with a Mi...

Felafel is a favorite vegetarian Middle Eastern food, made of ground legumes and vegetables, like chick peas, fava beans, scalions, garl...

This is part of a huge wall mural in the lobby area of the Shababik Restaurant here in Jeddah.  The cuisine of this restaurant is Lebane...

Naranj Restaurant is a lovely elegant Middle Eastern cuisine restaurant in Jeddah.  The architectural style and details of the build...

Saudi Arabia and the entire Middle East has a constant love affair with dates.  There are hundreds of varieties of dates that can be fou...

Middle Eastern countries have many similar dishes but with their own twist on them.  Unleavened bread similar to tortillas is commonly...

These are dates that have been pitted, strung, and dried.  Dates have long been a very popular staple in Middle Eastern diets and are usu...

Camels are apparently quite easy to contain and manage. They are corralled in very simple rickety enclosures made of a few short posts wit...

I have featured many photos of hard laborers on this blog. These workers come from a variety of poor Asian and African countries, like Ba...

It is common to see men dressed casually wearing a type of skirt that is very popular among Middle Eastern/Asian men. It is called a ...

Nothing quite spells tranquility like the vision of a mosque minaret at sundown and the sounds of the calls to prayer coming from all the mo...

I guess you could call this a "fast food" restaurant. It offers a typical dish called ful and tameez that is wildly popular...

At night, many of the buildings here in Jeddah remind me of birthday cakes because the tops of the buildings are ablaze with lights. ...

This stringed musical instrument is popular in the Middle East and in Middle Eastern music. I wrote a more detailed post with more ph...