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  • A woman shackled with chains and locks covers herself in mud as part of a purifying ritual  to unburden herself outside of the  Mira Datar Shrine in the town of Unava, Gujarat Thursday March 4, 2004. Over six centuries the Suffi Muslim Mira Datar shrine has claimed its fame as a sanctuary for healing mental ilness, particularly for women, where they are free to express themselves  in a society that otherwise regulates women's behaviour very strickly. In this atmosphere of acceptance these women often reveal through their healing trances a lifetime of duress linked to any range of  issues such domestic violence, pressures to provide dowry or a male child among them.
    INDIA MIRA DATAR SHRINE 001.jpg
  • A woman garbed in a black robe, the traditional Muslim outfit worn by most women in the area walks past festive party dresses at a local shop in the town of Hindia, Iraq, Sunday June 8, 2003. A  strengthened  fundamentalist rule of Islamic law has filled the power vacum left by the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein, who during his government supressed opposition from the Shiite Muslim.
    IRAQ WOMEN
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 12
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 11
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 10
  • A dancer from National Ballet of China performs the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 07
  • Muslim women take refuge from the sun in their adobe house set between beds of water and reed in the outskirts of the town of Nasariyah Thursday June 05, 2003.
    IRAQ THE MARSHES 01
  • Women fully clothed in traditional Islamic wear for women stroll down the beach on the Muslim day of rest in the Mediterranean coastal city of Gaza Friday July 27, 2001. Despite the 11 months of violence Israelis and Palestinians take a break to enjoy the mediterrenean beaches and the Dead Sea, where under growing tensions and in the case of Gaza under closure people try to  make the best of their summer and carry on a normal life. (AP PHOTO/Elizabeth Dalziel)
    TALE OF TWO BEACHES 11
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 02
  • North Korean women prepare to bow before the statue late North Korean President Kim Il Sung erected on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday Aug. 5, 2007.
    NORTH KOREA 03
  • A man poses for a picture with two women and a chimpanzee at the Zoo in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 05
  • Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse scenes from Signature work "The Red Detachment of Women," a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism, in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 13
  • A little girl peers from behind grieving Palestinian women as the funeral procession for 14 year old Neizar Eida who died under Israeli fire arrives in to  the West Bank village of Dir Amar Sunday October 1, 2000.
    MIDEAST INTIFADA CHILDREN 20
  • Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse scenes from Signature work "The Red Detachment of Women," a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism, in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 09
  • A fan of Michael Jackson cries while holding a poster with his likeness ahead of the premiere of the documentary "This Is It" in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009.The Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" has snapped up one of the last of China's 20 annual foreign movie import slots. Chinese censors approved the film , clearing it in time for the global release date of Oct. 28.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 12
  • Chinese Attendants wait for delegates at the second plenary session of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Monday, March 9, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 01
  • Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse at the their studio in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 05
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 09
  • Dancers put on their make up as they prepare for their next dance routine in Bombay, India Dec 10, 2004. Bombay's film industry may be the most prolific in the world, but unlike it's American counterpart, much of the work is done on a shoestring. The city churns out hundreds of films a year on its celluloid production line.
    INDIA BOLLYWOOD 13
  • Ballerina shoes belonging to Dancers from the National Ballet of China sit on the ground during a rehearsal at the their studio in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 01
  • Troops from the 2nd Battalion dance alongside villagers after descending from the mountains in to the valley to take part in a cultural program and remembrance ceremony in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Thursday April 22, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
    NEPAL MAOIST 06
  • A Nepali farmers rest under a tree as they treck their way along the narrow paths that lie between villages instead of roads in the Maoist controlled district of Rukum . Among the conditions that Nepal offers for a revolution, not only is there no democratically elected government, but farmers still have few roads or schools and live under a feudal systemwhere a handful of rich landlords exploit millions of poor. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
    NEPAL MAOIST 05
  • Bollywood Star cut outs, from left to right, Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachan,Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Karina Kapoor, stand next to a fan in a film studio in Mumbai, India December 8, 2004.
    INDIA BOLLYWOOD 04
  • A guest to a celebration of the 99th Anniversary of the International Women's Day at the Great Hall of the People poses for a souvenir snap shot next to a flower pot in Beijing, China, Friday, March 6, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 15
  • A group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member are taken away by police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb.5, 2009.While the nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress met, rings of uniformed and plainclothes police sealed off Tiananmen and kept ordinary Chinese and the normal hordes of tourists away. Police detained about two dozen people.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 13
  • A mother pours tea for her family as a gun battle takes place in the street outside her home in Abou Sneineh  Oct. 5, 2001. The women and children were trapped in a crossfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen in the Palestinian enclave surrounded by Jewish settlements near the West Bank town of Hebron.
    MIDEAST HEBRON TEA
  • A middle-aged petitioner from the countryside his head and shirt bloody,surrounded  by police and paramilitary police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb.5, 2009. Police detained about two dozen people, among them a group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 12
  • A middle-aged petitioner from the countryside his head and shirt bloody, is carried away by police and paramilitary police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 5, 2009. Police detained about two dozen people, among them a group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 09
  • An Indian woman wearing a traditional Indian Sari sips her tea at the end cocktail party for the Pizza hut Polo tournament at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. "The chiffon and pearl brigade, we call it," said Asmita Agarwal, a tough-talking polo and fashion writer for the Hindustan Times. "Women in chiffon saris dripping with huge diamonds ... They're all royalty, or at least they're trying to be royalty."  In many ways, that's what modern Indian polo is about joining the new royalty.
    INDIA POLO 03
  • -It's polo season in India, and the well-bred man and horse alike are again facing off on grassy fields, endlessly mingling sport and spectacle at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. There are galloping horses imported from Argentina and grooms in bright maroon turbans to care for them. There are wealthy players shouting in Hindi, Spanish and the most refined Oxford English. There are flocks of model-thin women in tight jeans and flashy jewelry.
    INDIA POLO 01
  • Israeli women cover their bodies with mud belief to be  healthy because of it's high mineral content on the shores of the Dead Sea in Israel Monday July 9, 2001. Despite the 11 months of violence Israelis and Palestinians take a break to enjoy the mediterrenean beaches and the Dead Sea, where under growing tensions and in the case of Gaza under closure people try to  make the best of their summer and carry on a normal life.
    TALE OF TWO BEACHES 06
  • Indian waiters and servants sitting behind curtains where the spectators and Polo crowd are seated, wait next to Indian trade mark Ambassador car for the Pizza cup final to end and for the cocktail to begin at the Jaipur Polo Ground in New Delhi, India Sunday Nov. 3, 2002. "The chiffon and pearl brigade, we call it," said Asmita Agarwal, a tough-talking polo and fashion writer for the Hindustan Times. "Women in chiffon saris dripping with huge diamonds ... They're all royalty, or at least they're trying to be royalty."  In many ways, that's what modern Indian polo is about joining the new royalty.
    INDIA POLO 09