Sharjah an Emirate of the United Arab Emirates
Emir palace behind square with an open Koran monument.
mosque
clock tower in the traffic circle
stylish building
Humanitarian Services
Gold Center
Shopping Mall
along the waterfront
a family
prows of the dhows
People from Iran who came in the trading dhows.
Date shop in the Souk
shopping mall
other Middle Eastern countries
The Middle East largely consists of Muslim countries:
 | 
Bahrain |
| 
Egypt |
| 
Iran |
| 
Jordan |
| 
Kuwait |
| 
Oman |
| 
Palestine |
| 
Qatar |
| 
Saudi Arabia |
| 
Syria |
|  The Yemen |
| United
Arab Emirates
|
Some of the exceptions are the Christian country of:
| Georgia |
the Jewish state of:
| Israel |
|
and a country with 17 different religious communities
| Lebanon |
