Middle Eastern Festivals | Festivals in Middle East

Middle Eastern Festivals

» 4 articles | 1 snippet | 4 photo galleries | 7 videos | 29 links

Middle East photo

The results listed below include links through to festival articles, festival snippets, festival photo galleries, festival videos and festival web sites external to 2camels that relate to festivals in Middle East.

Hotelopia has special offers and great prices on cheap hotels

Middle Eastern Festival Articles

4 festival article(s) returned for Middle East

Displaying article(s) 1 to 4 ordered by festival name

Article Title: The Sunnet of Hussein Erol

Festival Name: A Turkish Sunnet

Festival Country: Turkey

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural, Community

Hussein's Grandfather drew a nine inch blade from his boot and pulling back the chin with one hand, made a quick, deep cut across the goat's throat. Blood spilled onto the dry olive leaves of the family orchard. Grandfather Erol thanked Allah, thanked the goat, he asked that his grandson Hussein be blessed. Then he flayed it, removed the hide and draped over the stone wall to dry.

» read the article

Article Title: Ancient Rome Comes Alive in Jerash: Jordan's Roman City

Festival Name: Ancient Roman Re-enactment

Festival Country: Jordan

Festival Type(s): Historical, Traditional, Re-enactments

No sooner had we sat down in the semi-reconstructed Hippodrome at Jerash, Jordan's Roman city, a massive arena that once seated 15,000 spectators then, in the distance, I witnessed the appearance of a part of a Roman Legion, in a few minutes a re-enactment of the golden days of Rome came alive before us.

» read the article

Article Title: Gallipoli

Festival Name: ANZAC Day

Festival Country: Turkey

Festival Type(s): Remembrance, Historical, National

One paragraph described the digger's leap from the landing boat and dash across the beach and up the hills to meet up with his unit. In his own words he described the landing as 'glorious fun'.

» read the article

Article Title: Camel Wrestling

Festival Name: Camel Wrestling Championship

Festival Country: Turkey

Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Sport - Combat

While the Spanish have bullfights, and the Italians cockfights, and the English go hunting with hounds, the Turks have camel wrestling.

» read the article