This is pretty funny for an unintentional faux pas. In some of the more regressive cultures of the Middle East, it might also double as a rather controversial statement.
A woman exists a bus below campaign posters of Jordanian parliament candidates in the Baqaa Palestinian refugees camp near Amman. The Jordanian government played down reports of vote-buying as the electorate flocked to the polls under tight security in the pro-Western desert kingdom.(AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
More on so-called Palestinian "refugee" camps here, in case you're not already familiar with how the term has come to be so abused.
Tags: khalil mazraawi AFP #Intifada
Comments:
#1 Kevin 20-Nov-2007
Tell me more about this 'woman' thing. I had heard stories about them, but assumed they were just fables.
