Gaza: What One Side Sees and What the Other Side Sees (GRAPHIC)
While media consumers are bombarded daily with the most gut wrenching images of dead and injured Palestinians, especially children, the battle rages as to whether the images represent atrocities or collateral damage and the use of human shields.
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Thoughts on That Beautiful Gaza "Leaflet Sky"
This photo just feels so wrong to me right now.
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Between Israel and Gaza, How the Pictures Could Possibly Relate
What does it even mean to do justice to the soul-crushing photos pouring out of Gaza and Israel these past three weeks? And then where does balance come into it?
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Defusing the Air Strike
The impetus for the photo-illustration is to take over, handle and re-animate the bloody hell.
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Gaza's 9/11?
Depending on how associative your mind is, this AP photo from Gaza City can be seen to draw an analogy between 9/11 and the shattering hurt still unfurling in Gaza this deathly season.
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Israel/Gaza: Photos at Two Ends of a Week
Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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I Could Show you Photos from the Air Strike on the Beit Hanoun U.N. School Yesterday. Or….
What is commanding the world's attention in this latest war and the Israeli bombardment is the toll it has taken, and continues to take on children.
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Israeli War: How the Cracks Are Beginning to Show (in 4 Wire Photos)
These photos reflect the growing sense that Israel and the IDF are not going to survive this latest war with the swagger intact.
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These Are the Days of Scorched Earth
It seems fateful phrases are coming more easily at the moment than regular words.
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The Death of Four Gazan Cousins, Children of Fishermen
All that intensity makes the rest more unspeakable as we view the broken body of another cousin, futilely hanging on to life, as he's carried like a sack.
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What's More Deplorable, the Killing of Journalists Or Hardly Noticing?
Journalists have become targets in that many places for that long now that their vulnerability, and ultimately their fungibility, has ceased to even be noteworthy.
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More Questions Over Ethics: Is Reuters Enabling ISIL and are they Working with Sympathizers Again?
What are the implications of these photos in terms of the integrity of international news reporting? And what is the political, perceptual and propaganda impact of these photos relative to the goals of this terror group knowing how high they are riding?
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The Twisted Cairo al-Jazeera Verdict, in Pictures
For one thing, the judge spent a good chunk of time during the trial behind dark glasses.
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Israel/Palestine: What's Up
With the Israel/Palestine situation at a stalemate, what else can this girl do?
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Photographer Stephen Shore from Israel/Palestine: The Audacity of Puppies
And yet, is it possible — puppies as metaphor, and emotional suggestion -- to conceive of the Israelis and the Palestinians engaging in a way that is softer? When you put it into words, it sounds remarkable silly, but such is the power of photography.
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The Tell in that Rosy, "Make it all Better" Assad Campaign Video
There is a quick element in the clip that doesn't seem to square with the overwhelming vision of peace, love and undoing.
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David Degner on Egypt’s Telltale Election: The Result of a Hard, Sad and Bloody Process
If this bus was a violation of the "no-campaigning during voting" rules, it didn't matter.
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David Degner from Cairo: On the Sissi Election and Egypt Under the Boot
If there is cheering and yelling at events like this, my sense is that most Egyptians are quietly resigned. It’s so predictable from here out. Egyptians have lost their voice again.
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