Beirut protests Israel’s attack on Gaza aid convoy
Thousands take to streets of Beirut to protest Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla
Plane crashes off Beirut coast
An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed into the Mediterranean Sea just minutes after taking off in Beirut early this morning. Ninety people (including seven crew) were aboard the flight bound for Addis Ababa that included 54 Lebanese and 22 Ethiopians as well as passengers of other nationalities. Early reports indicate that most of the Lebanese passengers [...]
Suicide in Lebanon
Theresa Seda fell to her death from a 7th floor balcony across the street from my home.
Photography
It’s incredible that scenes like this still exist in an age where I can photograph them with a camera on my mobile phone.
Mohammad Othman
Last Tuesday a dear friend of mine was traveling back to his home in the occupied West Bank after a trip to Europe. He had been visiting Norway where he was meeting with senior officials in his capacity as an organizer with Stop the Wall, a Palestinian non-governmental organization that campaigns against Israel’s illegal wall [...]
Venezuela pics online
Click to see the complete gallery Finally! After many months I’ve uploaded images I took in Venezuela back in April of this year. It was not an easy trip, I was only in the country for about a week and tried to do way too much. It usually takes me that long just to get [...]
Beirut rains
The rains have begun in Beirut. Summer is over and in a matter of minutes the city has taken on a completely different feel. The air is fresher and the water is giving life to the dehydrated vegetation on my balcony and in the park below. I feel like this dude after a hot day [...]
Nahr al-Bared protest in Tripoli
Residents from the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon gathered on 16 September to protest the Lebanese government’s halting of planned reconstruction of the camp that was destroyed in 2007 in a battle between the Lebanese army and militants from Fatah al-Islam. Hundreds of refugees from the camp and their supporters gathered in Tripoli, [...]
Lebanon's communists remember
Last night, hundreds of supporters of the Lebanese Communist Party and other leftist groups gathered just around the corner from my house near Sanayeh in Beirut. They celebrated the 27th anniversary of their first resistance operation in Beirut against the Israeli army after the latter’s brutal invasion of the Lebanese capital in 1982. The attack [...]
Ramadan in Nahr al-Bared
A Palestinian family prepares for the iftar meal outside of prefabricated homes in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.
Wlad al-mukhayem/Kids of the camp
I can never accurately express my admiration for children in Palestinian refugee camps. By now I’ve been to most of the dozens of camps around the Arab world, and there is something consistent in all of them. It’s as if from day one children are born with an understanding of their family’s more than six [...]
Three more tunnel workers killed today in Gaza
Another three Palestinians were killed today in an Israeli strike on tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border. The young tunnel workers are paid little to risk their lives and dig tunnels that serve as a lifeline to supply Gaza’s population of 1.5 million with food, medicines, gasoline, and other essential items long denied to them by [...]
Woman at Arafat's funeral
While organizing my images for my portfolio site I came across this image from 2004. It’s always nice when I find an old image of mine that moves me as much as the day I took the image.
Cabrini Green, or what's left of it
These were the Cabrini Green housing projects in Chicago. Surrounded by a tight community of mostly working class Blacks while blocks away some of the richest and Whitest areas of the city, the larger area just north and northwest of downtown highlighted Chicago’s racial segregation. Now, these projects that have been around for decades (and [...]
Ipods, liquor stores and SUVs
500 Lebanese pounds for anyone who knows which street corner this is in Chicago. I took this picture when I was home a couple weeks ago.