Step back in time with scenes from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's 3rd Annual Kunna Kida Historical Festival ("We were like this.")

1. SUSIE of
ARABIA
presents
KUNNA
KIDA
“We were like this”
2016 HISTORICAL
FESTIVAL
JEDDAH,
SAUDI ARABIA

2. Jeddah’s famous
Mameluke Minarets
sculpture
greets visitors to the
2016 Jeddah
Historic Festival
called
KUNNA KIDA
(“We were like this.”)

4. At the entrance gate, a caravan of six
camels welcomes visitors to the festival.

6. The festival logo –
a typical beautiful
carved wooden door
of Al Balad,
the oldest part
of Jeddah.

7. A demonstration
of how to wrap the
scarf headdress
traditionally
worn by men

8. All done!

9. Me with a few of the event guides

11. The welcoming committee upon arrival at the festival

13. The festival ran for 10 days in January 2016

20. Creative handicrafts
were on sale

22. Some visitors dressed in
non-traditional clothing

23. Traditional elevated Saudi seating

24. An actor -
re-enactment of a
traditional vendor

25. Re-enactment of old time ice delivery

26. Actors re-enacting old traditional schooling

27. Traditionally dressed girls demonstrate
how girls used to play.

28. An actor in make-up

31. Featured Jeddah
photographer
Dalia
standing in front
of one of her
beautiful photos

32. A book signing at the new Jeddah Bliss Library

33. Artifacts – old urns

34. Me with our guide. I am holding an “Oud.”

38. Pinning a tag of my husband’s family name to the wall
of all original Jeddah families of Al Balad

39. A Saudi woman checks out a display of old bridal wear

40. Green Rawasheen

43. Continuing the tradition,
this man’s family business
has been dentistry
for several generations

45. Me with the
handsome model
in the photo behind us

51. Face Painting
for kids

53. Al Balad’s
famous
Naseef House

56. Stylish clothing
made out of
men’s scarves

60. The door of Jeddah’s
very first US Consulate