West Side Bazaar! Prepare to travel across countries while in Buffalo.
The West Side of Buffalo is an international hotspot representing countries from Indonesia, Iraq, Peru, Sudan, Rawanda, and many more. Many of the international residents have made Buffalo their home, and are not only planting roots, but also revitalizing the area. These three women I met at the West Side Bazaar are an example of budding small business owners that will one day branch off to set up a shop of their own in Buffalo. The Bazaar features jewelry, clothes, art, music, food and beauty products all from each of the vendor’s home country.
I felt very welcome in the store and was excited when some of the women told me about their home country and why they now love Buffalo. Please visit the Bazaar on the West Side open Thursday-Saturday - prepare to broaden your horizons.
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In this Dec. 13, 2009 file photo, Iraqi workers are seen at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra, Iraq. Basra is strategically crucial for Iraq. With a population of about 3 million people, Basra is Iraq’s second-largest province and home to about 70 percent of the country’s proven oil reserves of 143.1 billion barrels. The province, located on the Persian Gulf bordering Kuwait and Iran, is Iraq’s only outlet to the sea and is the hub for most of Iraq’s oil exports of nearly 1.9 million barrels a day to the international market.
People celebrate after the Iraqi national soccer team beat Jordan in the World Cup qualifying match, in Karradah, downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. Iraq won 3-1.
In this photo released by the Syrian News Station website, Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat lies injured at a hospital in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011. Masked gunmen dragged Syria’s best-known political cartoonist Ali Ferzat from his car before dawn Thursday, beat him severely and left him bleeding along the side of a road days after he compared Syria’s president to Moammar Gadhafi, human rights activists said. Hospitalized with serious injuries, Ferzat appears to have become the most famous victim of the repression of Syria’s 5-month uprising _ a stark reminder that no Syrian is immune to the government crackdown.
Israeli construction vehicles work on a section of a fence running along the Israel-Syria border, near the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Thursday, July 28, 2011. Israeli military officials announced on Wednesday, July 27, that the army is fortifying the fence running along its northern frontier with Syria in an effort to prevent a repeat of the deadly protests that occurred in May, when hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists in Syria burst through a fence and into the Golan Heights, with some managing to enter deep inside Israel before they were caught. Protesters also stormed the fence the following month. Several dozen protesters were killed in clashes with Israeli troops. The crowds were protesting to commemorate the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Arabs during the war surrounding Israel’s 1948 creation, an event Palestinians refer to as the nakba, or catastrophe.
A pro-reform in Syria activists, foreground, hold Arabic placards, as pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters, background, protest against the three activists in front of the Syrian embassy, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday April 12, 2011. Three pro-reform activists stood in front of the Syrian embassy in Beirut where they delivered a statement supporting the people’s demands and urging the government to extend its hand to Syrians who want change. Shortly afterward dozens of pro-regime Syrians arrived at the embassy and tried to attack the three men, who were later escorted away under the protection of Lebanese policemen. The Arabic placards from left to right read:” Freedom is the freedom of the nation and the citizen, No to security solutions, yes to dialogue. No to fanatic and backward forces. You have damaged and harmed the demands of the people in Libya, we will not allow to sabotage things in Syria, No to foreign interference no to France, no to German and No to America, Syria the resistance plus Syria the democracy equals a strong Syria”.
Police escort a march by students protesting against cuts in higher education funding in London.
Justice and Development Party lawmaker Huseyin Sahin, right, tries to stop fellow party member Muhittin Aksak, from speaking during a debate at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey.
Schoolchildren dressed as brides and grooms waited to perform during Children’s Day celebrations at a school in Amritsar, India, Monday. The day is meant to promote the welfare of children. Photo Credit: AP.
Seen at Paris-Photo, German-born, China-based Michael Wolf’s Tokyo Compression series, taken on the city’s subway, is literally breathtaking. Faces of Tokyo commuters are pressed up against condensation-soaked windows, creating small pools of mist as they breathe in and out, struggling for air.
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A woman gave confession to a priest at one of the 200 temporary confessionals set up at Madrid’s Buen Retiro Park on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims will gather in Madrid for a giant open-air Mass, launching a six-day youth party.
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An elderly woman from the Bai Zhu tribe of Lijiang, China, is stitching a new print.
Every major newspaper in the U.K. published a version of this image: a woman jumping from a burning building during riots outside London. The photographer, Amy Weston, said the police moved in to catch the woman, but she doesn’t know what became of her. The uncropped image is on the home page of WENN.com and is posted with this Guardian account of how Weston came across the scene. (Page image from PressDisplay.com)
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