In the northeast, you quickly find yourself in Irish countryside: ash trees, low stone walls, thick-walled homes hunkered down against the chill.
The sign outside his walled home advertises sewing classes.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai was killed on Sunday night after two gunmen stormed his walled home here.
On a recent tour of the area, Mr. Lee stepped gingerly past a stand of beach grass about 100 yards south of Mr. Kushner's walled home.
Residents heard the blast from their mud-walled homes on the dusty road nearby.
Taipei opened the island to visitors in 1969 and, in the name of progress, bulldozed most of the traditional, stone-walled homes over the objections of residents.
Along with five other families the Frayns designed and built their own glass-walled homes on the edge of Blackheath in South East London.
Glass-walled homes are as old as Modernism; in urban settings, they received validation when Richard Meier built a trio of condos near the Hudson River, architects say.
Many of the mud-walled homes sit in the shadow of the reconstructed Mashki Gate, a soaring entryway to Nineveh, described in the biblical Book of Jonah as "an exceedingly great city".
The Taliban's white flag flew from many of the mud-walled homes, surrounded by dense cornfields and pomegranate orchards laced with twisting lanes and canals, and heavily booby-trapped.
A CRUISE through Area 43, a pleasant suburb of Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, takes one past the high-walled homes of political leaders to a single-storey private medical clinic.
