Obama vs. Gaddafi: Who’s A Head?
If this picture caught the imagination of photo editors — the souvenir hung on a destroyed government tank by the Libyan rebels following a coalition airstrike — it might have a greater symbolic significance. Now that Obama has stuck his neck out — not just to bolster the Libyan insurgency...
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Her AK
If it was just a guy firing straight into the air, this never would have made the wires.
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There is People Power and There is Firepower
Eighteen days in Egypt, Tahrir chock full of tanks, and hardly did I see a photo as phallic as this one.
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Alan Chin on the Middle East: Ghosts of Suez and Srebrenica
In this momentous period in the Middle East, Alan Chin reflects on military interventions that didn't happen, concerns for the one that has, and the emotional forces at play for a photojournalist now back home, while friends and colleagues remain at risk.
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And This Photo Symbolizes…?
Two days later, still trying to figure out what this picture means....
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Bahrain: Crushing the Pearl
Bahrain's leader's don't understand how much a public monument, especially a poetic one, is part of the emotional fabric of a city, its destruction only emphasizing its erasure and inviting every citizen to fill in the hole with a memory of the structure and the circumstances surrounding its...
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Nicole Tung in Eastern Libya: Fresh To My Virgin Eyes WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE BELOW
Nicole Tung, in Libya photographing her first war, captures the deteriorating situation of the anti-Qaddafi forces. Her story and images are raw, harrowing, and intensely honest.
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Feminism and the Mid-East: What Mostly Happened in Tahrir Square Yesterday
Am I saying that women are less susceptible to violence, harassment and intimidation in Egypt than before Mubarak fell, or that some men didn't attack women or chase them out of the square later in the evening? No, I'm not. As opposed to the idea the photo somehow missed...
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David Degner in Benghazi: Victory Signs, Mostly (and How Arabs Play for the Camera)
Raising my camera in Libya these past two weeks, the most common reaction is a smile and the flashing of a peace sign. It is used by protesters and rebels to identify themselves as anti-Qaddafi. But Eastern Libya is not complete with "peace signs," by the way.
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Nicole Tung in Eastern Libya: The Front Line
The battle for Brega south of Benghazi in eastern Libya: Qaddafi repulsed by the opposition.
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The Arab Lens: Friendly/Good vs. Scary/Bad
To the extent the democracy-seeking Arabs tend to look like us, and do their revolution-making in peaceable and prettified ways, we love them and love to look at them. On the other hand, though, to the extent "they" start to look more angry, more violent, and either more...
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Nicole Tung in Benghazi: This Is What The Revolution Looks Like
Nicole Tung explores how Libyans present themselves in this first moment of liberation.
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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: Chaos (Controlled?)
This exodus exemplifies a dark face of globalization: Smaller numbers from richer societies are taken care of, while the masses of laborers from poor countries struggle to survive -- and that is a fundamental reason why this wave of revolt and revolution has swept across the region.
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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: Exodus
It's no longer quiet at Tunisia's Ras Jedir border where Alan Chin had been attempting to cross into Libya these past two days. Instead, there is now a mass of evacuees choking the area.
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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: A Hundred Miles
From the Tunisian border to Tripoli, it is only a hundred miles along the Mediterranean coast highway. At any moment, we journalists gathered here calculate, the revolution will reach this border and we'll be able to enter. But when or how that might happen, we can only speculate.
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David Cameron –- Escorting Arms Dealers to Huge Mid-East Defense Expo –- Drops By Tahrir Square
Only slightly obscured by the palm trees and the olive branches, here are a few choice photos laying out the blatant hypocricy of the West when it comes to the arming of Middle Eastern dictators and autocratic regimes -- on sale now!
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back
Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.
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