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.
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, [...]
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 [...]
1948 all over again
How many times will we allow one people to become refugees? 1948, 1967, 1974, 1976, 1982, 2007, 2009 to list just a few… Palestinians are the largest refugee population in the world.
Cycle of Conflict
Cycle of Conflict, a special CNN program about Israel/Palestine, just simplified the history of the conflict by saying that the Arab-Israeli war began six decades ago, then jumped to 1967 when Israel captured the Gaza Strip and added that some Israelis moved there, and then jumped to 2005 when Israel removed the settlers to try [...]