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Image Not Available for Ibn el-Gavri, the first Arabic press photographer sits outside the Mar Saba monastery in the Yehudah desert.
Ibn el-Gavri, the first Arabic press photographer sits outside the Mar Saba monastery in the Yehudah desert.
Image Not Available for Ibn el-Gavri, the first Arabic press photographer sits outside the Mar Saba monastery in the Yehudah desert.

Ibn el-Gavri, the first Arabic press photographer sits outside the Mar Saba monastery in the Yehudah desert.

Creator Ibn el-Gavri
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 23.5 x 15.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
    Object number2002/1209
    LocationNot currently on display

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