Have you wished your mother a happy Mother’s Day yet? Do it. Now.

Give her a call, send her a message or email, get her a bouquet of flowers with a hand written card – yell it across the house right now. Even better yet, send her a link to this article.

We guarantee she’ll love it.

As professional internet researchers, we have scoured all corners of the internet to find some of the earliest and most mesmerizing images of Arab mothers and children from the Arab world of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Looking through the collection of beautiful and touching images prove that motherhood goes beyond culture and race and is understood universally as one of (if not the) strongest of human bonds.

Check out the images we’ve collected below and let us know which is your favourite!