Middle East Centre Archive

Christopher Gandy Photo Gallery: Middle East including North Africa, 1940s to 1970s

The images from this gallery are from the Christopher Gandy Collection GB165-0381, Albums 2-10. The captions are those that appear in the album or on the reverse of the images. Christopher Gandy was a soldier and then diplomat, appointed to the Foreign Office after the Second World War and subsequently active in various parts of the world between the 1940s and 70s. He was particularly active in Persia, Libya and the Yemen, where he was appointed HM Minister in 1962.

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Christopher Gandy Album 2/5 Madame Nakha'i	Christopher Gandy Album 2/9 Madame Jazairi, Galanovak, Persia	Christopher Gandy Album 2/11 Baalbek
Christopher Gandy Album 2/17 Muhammad, Cairo

Christopher Gandy Album 3/2 Marrakesh, Morocco	Christopher Gandy Album 3/5 Fez, Morocco	Christopher Gandy Album 3/6 Fez, Morocco
Christopher Gandy Album 3/8 Mosque of Side Uqba, Qairouan, Tunisia	Christopher Gandy Album 3/11 Qairouan, Tunisia	Christopher Gandy Album 3/12 Tunis
Christopher Gandy Album 3/20 Zliten, Libya	Christopher Gandy Album 3/21 Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo	Christopher Gandy Album 3/26 Seyyid Zia ud Din, former Prime Minister
Christopher Gandy Album 3/34 Unlabelled	Christopher Gandy Album 3/41 Guardian of the Shrine, Ardabil, Persia	Christopher Gandy Album 3/42 In the Ummyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria
Christopher Gandy Album 3/45 Boy with Bread, Aleppo, Syria	Christopher Gandy Album 3/59 Unlabelled	Christopher Gandy Album 3/62 Unlabelled

Christopher Gandy Album 4/9 Shepherd near Tehran	Christopher Gandy Album 4/13 Miss Furughi (Persian-Swiss)	Christopher Gandy Album 4/22 Bushire
Christopher Gandy Album 4/28 Bushire	Christopher Gandy Album 4/29 Near Shiraz	Christopher Gandy Album 4/35 My Cats, Tehran
Christopher Gandy Album 5/41 Christopher	Christopher Gandy Album 5/42 Persian Shepherd	Christopher Gandy Album 5/50 Unlabelled
Christopher Gandy Album 6/3 Rabat	Christopher Gandy Album 6/7 Marrakesh	Christopher Gandy Album 7/18 Moulay, Idriss

Christopher Gandy Album 8/1 Mosque of Sidi 'Uqba, Cairouan	Christopher Gandy Album 8/3 South of Benghazi	Christopher Gandy Album 8/6 Sirte
Christopher Gandy Album 8/17 Zliten	Christopher Gandy Album 8/19 Zliten	Christopher Gandy Album 8/29 Mahdia
Christopher Gandy Album 8/40 Sousse	Christopher Gandy Album 8/42 Ras al Hillal, Cyrenaica	Christopher Gandy Album 9/6 Al Azhar, Cairo
Christopher Gandy Album 9/9 Tomb of Sultan Qala'un, Cairo	Christopher Gandy Album 9/10 Tomb of Qait Bey, Cairo	Christopher Gandy Album 9/17 Near Taiz, Yemen
Christopher Gandy Album 9/19 Haji Mahfuz, Yemen	Christopher Gandy Album 9/24 Ibb	Christopher Gandy Album 9/31 Above Taiz
Christopher Gandy Album 9/33 Damascus	Christopher Gandy Album 9/43 Aleppo	Christopher Gandy Album 9/45 Hama

Christopher Gandy Album 10/06 Unlabelled	Christopher Gandy Album 10/13 Karaj	Christopher Gandy Album 10/15 Poet and pupil, Sidon
Christopher Gandy Album 10/17 Beit ud Din, Lebanon	Christopher Gandy Album 10/28 Shepherds and graves, Maragheh, Persia	Christopher Gandy Album 10/31 Sidon
Christopher Gandy Album 10/32 Sidon	Christopher Gandy Album 10/33 Early Morning Shadows	Christopher Gandy Album 10/49 Jerusalem
Christopher Gandy Album 10/51 Petra