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PHOTO0000000193

English transcription: UNESCO Technical Assistance - Abu Shraib Fundamental Education Centre. Villagers of the village of Washash, part of the area served by the Fundamental Education Centre, attend an open-air literacy class.
French transcription: Assistance technique de l'UNESCO le Centre d’éducation de base d'Abou-Shraib. Ici, une classe en plein-air au village de Washash qui fait partie de la zone d'action du Centre.
Description: In an open square, a man dressed in suit and tie shows pictures (one might be about vaccination) on a white board with Arabic text; a crowd of children, sitting on the ground, listens to him. An adult is sitting on a chair behind the children; in the background, women dressed in dark chador seem to be waiting.

PHOTO0000000213

Description: An elderly man with a walking stick is sitting on a chair and reading a newspaper in Arabic. He is wearing a keffiyeh. The cover of the newspaper is a full page picture of Ava Gardner. Behind the man, a younger man, with a keffiyeh and barefoot, is standing and staring at the camera.

PHOTO0000000235

English transcription: Villagers looking at posters placed by the UNESCO Fundamental Education Centre as part of its Campaign to eliminate illiteracy.
French transcription: Des villageois regardent des affiches apposées par le Centre d'éducation de base de l'UNESCO en faveur de la Campagne d'alphabétisation.
Description: Approximately eight men and a boy are standing outside looking at two illustrated posters affixed to the wall of a thatch-roofed building.

PHOTO0000000236

English transcription: In the Middle East the United Nations has helped establish classes. Here is a boys' class in a tent. Some adults wishing to learn to read and write are also attending.

Description: A man is standing in front of a blackboard, pointing at a white cardboard poster with handwritten writing and illustrations.

PHOTO0000000551

English transcription: Villagers looking at posters placed by the UNESCO Fundamental Education Centre as part of its Campaign to eliminate illiteracy.
French transcription: Des villageois regardent des affiches apposées par le Centre d'éducation de base de l'UNESCO en faveur de la Campagne d'alphabétisation.
Description: Des enfants se pressent devant un mur sur lequel on peut y voir deux affiches avec deux photos. Sur la première un homme et une fillette assis côte à côte sont en train d’écrire et sur l’autre deux jeunes hommes travaillent sur des machines. Les deux photos sont sous-titrées en arabe.

PHOTO0000001013

English transcription: A lesson at El-Doura primary school.
French transcription: Une leçon à l’école primaire d’El-Doura.
Description: In a classroom, eight students sit at desks and a teacher stands in the front, all with their backs to the camera. One pupil is writing in Arabic on the blackboard while the class watches. There are drawings on the blackboard. The teacher has a piece of paper in his hand.

PHOTO0000001514

English transcription: Bed of ancient Nahrwan canal.
French transcription: Lit de l'ancien canal Nahrwan.
Description: A man in traditional clothes walking along a dried-up canal in a desert landscape, with dunes in the background. The man is wearing a long scarf covering head, neck and shoulders, and a dark jacket over an ankle-length loose fitting garment.

PHOTO0000001525

English transcription: The United Nations Development Programme is providing assistance to the Government of Iraq, in co-operation with the Scientific Research Council, in the organization of the Iraq Institute for Research and Exploitation of Natural Resources at Abu Ghraib. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of the project. Here, a laboratory technician testing salinity of irrigation water.
French transcription: Le Programme des Nations-Unies pour le Développement assiste le Gouvernement de l'Irak, en collaboration avec le Conseil irakien de la Recherche scientifique, dans l'organisation de l'Institut pour la Recherche et l'Exploitation des ressources naturelles du pays à Abu Ghraib. L'UNESCO est chargé de s'occuper essentiellement de la mise en valeur, pour l'agriculture, des terres salées, et appauvries. Ici, une technicienne de laboratoire faisant des essais de salinité de l'eau d'irrigation.
Description: Inside a science laboratory, a women in a white coat is blowing with a long pipe into a glass beaker in her hand. A man in a black suit - in front of a door and next to a coathanger - is watching her. The centre of the room is dominated by a high, massive table covered with glass beakers, test tubes, and various other items of laboratory equipment.
Location: Abu Ghraib.

PHOTO0000001527

English transcription: The Arid Zones Research Institute, which receives assistance from UNESCO. Study of condensation.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Étude de la condensation.
Description: Two men crouching to look into a cased, transparent apparatus for measuring water condensation. An upside-down bottle is feeding water into it. The men are wearing white shirts with long sleeves.
Location: Baghdad.

PHOTO0000001528

English transcription: The Arid Zone Research Institute receives UNESCO assistance. Study of water on experimental ground.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Étude de l'eau sur le terrain expérimental.
Description: Outdoors, two men are working at a round shallow hole in the ground, lined with bricks and metal. One man, wearing a traditional garment and cloth headdress is pouring water into a metal container connected to rubber tubes leading into the hole. Another man - wearing a white shirt - is standing in the hole, writing in a notebook. There are 3 other similar containers around the hole.
Location: Baghdad.

PHOTO0000001529

English transcription: The United Nations Development Programme is providing assistance to the Government of Iraq, in co-operation with the Scientific Research Council of Iraq, in the organization of the Iraq Institute for Research and Exploitation of Natural Resources at Abu Ghraib. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of this Project. Drainage ditch for reclamation of saline land.
French transcription: Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement assiste le Gouvernement de l'Irak en collaboration avec le Conseil irakien de la Recherche scientifique, dans l'organisation de l'Institut pour la Recherche et l'Exploitation des ressources naturelles du pays à Abu Ghraib. L'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution de ce projet chargé de s'occuper essentiellement de la mise en valeur, pour l'agriculture, des terres salées et appauvries. Ici, canalisation pour la désalinisation et l'irrigation.
Description: Through a network of twigs and branches, a long ditch containing water, with a sign in the foreground reading "Drainage & Reclamation Experiment." In the background are two buildings on either side of the ditch.
Location: Abu Ghraib.

PHOTO0000001535

English transcription: The Arid Zone Research Institute receives UNESCO assistance. Study of water on experimental ground.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Étude de l'eau sur le terrain expérimental.
Description: A man wearing a lab coat crouching on a long, thin wooden plank over a small, round, pool of water bordered by bricks. The man has a long stick in his hand. There is some kind of device in the water.
Location: Baghdad.

PHOTO0000001539

English transcription: The Arid Zone Research Institute which receives UNESCO assistance. Hydrological research on experimental ground. Left, Mr. L. Pavel, UNESCO expert from Czechoslovakia.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Recherches hydrologiques sur le terrain expérimental. Ici, M. L. Pavel (Tchécoslovaquie), expert de l'UNESCO.
Description: Two men, one wearing a lab coat, bent over, and holding a stick with wires attached, the other dressed in local garb, holding a bottle. There are several lines of bricks on the ground. There seems to be a large, empty, metal cylinder in the background.
Location: Baghdad.

PHOTO0000001540

English transcription: The Arid Zone Research Institute which is assisted by UNESCO. Drainage and reclamation experiment. Left, an irrigation canal.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Terrain d'essai de mise en valeur du sel. A g., canal d'irrigation.
Description: Long, narrow irrigation canal, with two men, holding digging instruments with long handles. Both men wear head coverings and one is wearing a long traditional garment.
Location: Baghdad.

PHOTO0000001541

English transcription: The Arid Zones Research Institute, which receives assistance from UNESCO. Study of condensation.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Étude de la condensation.
Description: Three men wearing white shirts putting in place a curved instrument with tubes for condensation experiment.
Location: Baghdad.

PHOTO0000001542

English transcription: The United Nations Development Programme is providing assistance to the Government of Iraq, in co-operation with the Scientific Research Council, in the organisation of the Iraq Institute for Research and Exploitation of Natural Resources at Abu Ghraib. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of this project. Experimental ground.
French transcription: Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement assiste le Gouvernement de l'Irak, en collaboration avec le Conseil irakien de la Recherche scientifique, dans l'organisation de l'Institut pour la Recherche et l'Exploitation des ressources naturelles du pays à Abu Ghraib. L'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution de ce projet chargé de s'occuper essentiellement de la mise en valeur, pour l'agriculture, des terres salées et appauvries. Terrain expérimental.
Description: A man wearing a suit and tie, carrying a notebook and walking in a dry field with a shallow ditch marked with signs on small pickets.
Location: Abu Ghraib.

PHOTO0000001547

English transcription: The Arid Zone Research Institute which receives UNESCO assistance. Study on condensation with the aid of a solar oven.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Étude de la condensation à l'aide d'un four solaire.
Description: Three men, one partially hidden by a small rectangular board, attached to a 3-sided tub lined with a reflecting material. Two other men are working around a very large round concave metal dish with a pipe in the centre upon which is a small round mesh plate holding a small frying pan. One of the men is bent over next to the dish hands on knees intently examining the situation. A ring is visible on his left hand. The other man wearing a watch on his left wrist is standing upright and holding the handle of the frying pan.
Location: Baghdad.

PHOTO0000001553

English transcription: The Arid Zone Research Institute which receives UNESCO assistance. Research on soil on experimental ground.
French transcription: Institut de recherche sur la zone aride assisté par l'UNESCO. Recherches sur la mise en valeur du sol sur le terrain expérimental.
Description: Outdoors, a man - wearing white shirt and tie, with rolled up sleeves - crouched before 1of 5 muddy pits of soil, looking into the interior of a soil study mechanism.
Location: Baghdad.

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