Middle East Watch Archives - Page 5 of 9

Notes Photo July 1, 2012

Official Photos from Egypt as Scenes From the Chess Game

Given the transparency of the Egyptian power struggle, official government photos offer a record of the posturing more than anything else.

Notes Photo March 19, 2012

IED

A rare photo, especially after the years of damage inflicted on American troops and tanks in Iraq.

Notes Photo March 15, 2012

A daily stream of photos showing Assad's atrocities against his own people is one thing. More heinous perhaps, are images of domestic indulgence, items of vanity that reveal the bubble the Assad's have been swimming around in as the blood flows in the streets.

Notes Photo February 22, 2012

Visualizing Truth to Power: Putting Photos from Syria Together

These images aren't just random and they aren't just artifacts. They are testaments and they bear witness.

Notes Photo December 18, 2011

Photo of Woman Stripped by Egyptian Military: Not Shamed, Not a Victim

This image does not portray a victim. It portrays a hero—a warrior waging a battle for democracy.

Notes Photo November 28, 2011

Simeon to Cyborg: Is Anti-Democratic Meme (& "Arresting" Pics) Dooming Progressive Protest?

The photo may be fitting too well with the anti-democratic meme of late that progressive movements are incoherent. Worse, he looks grotesquely simian, as if political demonstrations were a form of devolution.

Notes Photo October 24, 2011

Hillary and Libya: "V" is Very, Very Extraordinary

Although taken two days before, it wouldn't have surprised me one bit if this photo had been taken two days after Gaddafi was terminated.

Notes Photo October 21, 2011

Sinking, Sinking in the Reign: Our 1 Pic Gaddafi Retrospective

I'm laughing at clouds So dark up above The sun's in my heart And I'm ready for love

Notes Photo October 18, 2011

Guitar Hero

Clearly a "photo gallery top hit."

Notes Photo September 1, 2011

"Qaddafi’s Mile-High Club" Meets "You Won’t Have Dick to Kick Around Anymore"

Not much equivalent, though, to the South Lawn.

Notes Photo August 27, 2011

Your Turn: Gaddafi Disintegrates?

The illustration is very cool, but I'm wondering: what does it symbolize, exactly?

Notes Photo August 25, 2011

Gaddafi's Taste for Rice

Well, I like how they photographed Gaddafi's Condi Rice scrapbook on top of a flowery mattress in the dictator's compound.

Notes Photo August 24, 2011

The Colonel’s Hat

I want to rejoice over a scene like this. But then....

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Nicole Tung in Eastern Libya. Next Stop: Qadaffi's Hometown

Nicole Tung in eastern Libya where the eastern front presses on towards the Qaddafi stronghold of Sirte, and fierce fighting may yet be in the cards.

Notes Photo August 22, 2011

Saif Wins the Internet

To the extent politics today is dominated by celebrities -- the badder the better -- the captured, un-captured Saif Ghadafi vanquished the rebels tonight on cable news and won Monday's internet.