NIMEP INSIGHTS: Volume II, Photographs from the Field: Egypt, Iran, Israel and the West Bank, and Turkey

Women walking the streets of Ardebil, Iran, illustrate the contrast between generations. Older women opt for more conservative chadors while teenagers wear "manteaus" and head scarves, July 2004.

An ethnically Arab man smokes a cigarette in Urfa, a city in southeast Turkey bordering Syria, January 2006.

Posters of Najaf Abad and Mojtahid Shabestary, two religious scholars, were ripped off the wall outside the Noor Shopping Center in the upscale quarters of Tehran, Iran, July 2004.