There are places in this world that urge you to pause, and Lebanon’s Qadisha Valley is one. As the day ends over this historic landscape — birthplace of one of the most popular poets of all time, Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet — you look around and sense that the sun has set here for thousands of years, well […]
Michelangelo In All Of Us (Bil’in, West Bank)
You might not know it from the photo, but the girl and guy above don’t care much for each other. The scene is the West Bank village of Bil’in, and the protestor, from Europe or the United States, most likely, is trying to take a shield away from an Israeli soldier. The picture almost seems […]
Thoughts On Getting A Bit Too Thin (Deir ez-Zur, Syria)
The following was written in June 2010 from a sweltering (but fondly remembered) room at the Hotel Al-Jamia Al-Arabia in Deir ez-Zur, Syria. It has happened again: after several months on the road, walking and photographing throughout the day in the less-than-moderate Middle Eastern heat, I’ve lost weight. I’ve lost so much, in fact, that […]
Voices: Rose from Aleppo, Syria
I met Rose on June 24, 2010. It was a beautiful sunny morning in Aleppo, Syria, and I was photographing in the plaza beneath the historic citadel when a young woman entering the plaza caught my eye. She had style and confidence, and I liked the colors she was wearing. She said yes when I […]
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