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Best of the Middle EastTrue luxury draws from the past and its heritage, elevating the finest achievements of local culture to majestic new heights. The fine pieces of luxury—and ancient piece of pottery used to serve water to families for decades or a sixteenth century hand weaved for months—creates a world of vivid color and memory.

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Food
Archways of Empires

Vast empires collected architecture from many traditions and assembled them under these golden arches.
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Food
The Sound of Music

See how one shopkeeper in Jordan is trying to keep the beloved oud alive and well.
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Pyramid of Giza
Up Close with Instruments

Do you know what Rikk is? How about an Oud or a Qanan? ALO’s guide to the instruments you may have never heard enough of to appreciate.
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Three Super Safaris
Shangri-La

Testing your mettle in the grand outdoors of the Middle East is the most intimate way of getting up close and personal. We narrowed our top choices to show you the hike away from the mundane and right into the pleasures of raw nature.
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Three Super Safaris
Continuing a Middle Eastern Tradition
One family still forms their craft in the same spot since 1819.
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