Tag: middle east
member name: Joel Carillet
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July 21, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
I've postponed a month-long plan to publish a photo essay from a 2003 trip I made to Gaza. There are several reasons for this, most of them to do with being busy lately, but the primary reason . . .
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November 21, 2007 10:12 AM EST --
Six years have passed since that morning, but still today, when I come across that dusty and tattered book now tucked away in a . . .
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January 16, 2008 08:51 PM EST --
In the spirit of the " Excerpts from a Manuscript " posts I did almost three months ago, which looked at Asia, I thought . . .
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June 21, 2006 09:57 AM EDT --
Lijiang, China
Since at least the time of the Qin Dynasty (the rulers who unified China in the third century BC), people have been propelling a ball forward with their feet. This predecessor of . . .
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September 19, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
Few issues elicit such heated and often ill-informed opinions as the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Having made several trips to the region (which in 2003 included working for . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
Part 2 of 2; to begin at Part 1, click HERE)
But this occasion was unique because Salim had decided to lease the land to ICAHD and, . . .
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September 01, 2009 11:51 PM EDT --
No American novel makes me think of Israel/Palestine like John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . The smoldering anger of the Joads as they are displaced from their land and forced . . .
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December 11, 2006 12:31 PM EST --
On the road, it is often a loving stranger who illustrates that, at our best, we are all brothers and sisters . . .
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January 17, 2008 01:46 PM EST --
Here is where the "five minutes" took place, on a hillside northeast of the West Bank town of Nablus
Never in my life had I seen an adult begin to hyperventilate because . . .
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February 07, 2008 11:14 AM EST --
An article I wrote about Father Yousef (above) for the January/February issue of Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is now available online. I've posted an excerpt . . .
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May 08, 2008 04:02 PM EDT --
MELBOURNE, FLORIDA (MARCH 2008)
Blame it on the Melbourne Beach Public Library. Had they not stocked a visually . . .
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May 22, 2008 05:00 PM EDT --
Early this summer I anticipate the publication of my book 30 Reasons to Travel: Photographs and Reflections from Southeast Asia . . . .
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August 01, 2007 10:01 PM EDT --
(Part 1 of 2)
Having worked for several months in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, I could confirm much . . .
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November 17, 2006 08:54 AM EST --
As a few of you know, I am in the midst of a six-week visit to Palestine and Israel. This is a difficult land, full of violence and injustice, but most of this you will not see on the news. . . .
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February 13, 2008 12:14 PM EST --
For hours I had been traveling up the Nile Valley, from Luxor to Cairo, on a train jammed with Egypt's working poor. Having been . . .
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September 26, 2008 02:02 PM EDT --
Encounters between Israelis and Palestinians do not always go well. This past summer, for example, an angry . . .
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April 26, 2007 07:50 PM EDT --
In the West Bank village of Bil'in, Olga Ginzbourg, . . .
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September 26, 2006 02:35 PM EDT --
An entrance to a Palestinian town, dug up and destroyed by the Israeli Defense Force.
In my previous post, The West Bank Countryside (Settlements) , I mentioned how it is difficult to drive far . . .
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October 18, 2008 07:33 PM EDT --
To begin at part one, CLICK HERE
Back in Burqin—we were now about a mile from the tank blocking the . . .
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