Portraits from Egypt
Egyptian woman from Cairo, wearing the arousa-ornament on her veil
Women selling water and oranges on the road to Heliopolis, painting from the mid-19th century. The standing woman has folded her face-veil over her head
Nomadic woman from the Egyptian-Sudanese border. The decoration of her hair and the decorative scars on her face place her on the Red Sea coast-tribes such as the 'Ababda or Bisharin
A Bisharin mother and child
An interesting article on the Rashaida tribe living on the Red Sea coast in Egypt and Sudan can be found here.