Le henné : rituels, esthétique et pratiques socialesAlgérie, Arabie saoudite, Bahreïn, Égypte, Émirats arabes unis, Iraq, Jordanie, Koweït, Maroc, Mauritanie, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Soudan, Tunisie, Yémen
Liste représentative 2024
EN: A local woman is preparing the henna paste in Al Ain City (United Arab Emirates)
EN: Al Hannaya is applying henna on the little girl's hand in celebration of Eid occasion (United Arab Emirates)
EN: The traditional UAE henna engraving called 'Gassat Al Shiraa' (United Arab Emirates)
EN: Henna preparaton - collective henna party with children in celebration of the 27th night of the holy month of Ramadan (Algeria)
EN: Henna artist decorating the back of a woman's hand; the designs used in this image are inspired by Islamic motifs (Bahrain)
EN: Sufi orders celebrate the birth of Al-Hussain by women corrying henna trays and placing candles and incense sticks in them next to men carrying tambourins (Egypt)
EN: The traditional henna bowl is used to knead the henna in it before the henna night and inscribed on it in Baghdadi language 'Tonight is my henna' (Iraq)
EN: Henna night in one of the Jordanian countryside (Jordan)
EN: Photo of engraving henna by student (Kuwait)
EN: Al Hannaya continues the decoration of the hand and her henna is already well mixed (Mauritania)
EN: Henna artist (Naqqacha) wearing a traditional dress (Takchita) decorating the back of a bride's hand with Tarzarzit design inspired by Moroccan Amazigh motifs. The bride is dressed in a Moroccan caftan embroidered with 'Ntaa' and peacock motifs and traditional jewelry of Fez: Taj, Khait Rih, Khlala and Mdamma. (Morocco)
EN: The henna process of cutting the henna branches (Oman)
EN: Henna ceremony showing the bride and groom in traditional Palestinian costumes - photo from 1990 (Palestine)
EN: Um Khalid using her hands to put the henna paste after preparing on the little girl's palm in the traditional way (Qatar)
EN: Grinding the henna leaves in Farasan Island for the bride in the henna night (Saudi Arabia)
EN: Sudanese traditional henna tools 'Jertigs' (popular tratiditional rituals in Sudan)
EN: One of the henna rituals in the Tunisian coastal cities is the bride raising the palm of her henna-stained hand in a slow rotational movement around itself known as the 'Jalwa' (Tunisia)
EN: Henna drawing by a group of trainees in a workshp in Sanaa (Yemen)
