My published essays
- Walls of Beirut
Sowar, Journalistic and Documentary Photography, Issue 00, Vol. 1, June 2007 - Photographic Style and the Depiction of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Jerusalem Quarterly, Summer 2007, Issue 31. - Not All Black and White
Middle East Report, 240, Fall 2006. [A review essay of photography books about Palestine.] - Creating Memory and History: The role of archival practices in Lebanon and Palestine
Photographies, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2009, pages 21 - 35. - Between Orientalist Clichés and Images of Modernization: Photographic Practice in the Late Ottoman Era
History of Photography, Winter 2003, Vol. 27, No. 4.
Recent Posts
- Representing the Middle East: Looking for the everyday
- Misdirected gaze in Jerusalem
- Apartheid and Beyond - new issue of Middle East Report
- Yasser Alwan's portraits and Paris Photo 2009
- Maha Maamoun and the Pyramids
- "Humanising Photography"
- Beginning again, and art from the Middle East
- Ongoing series of photos taken in the alleyways in Evergreen, Baltimore
- Photojournalists, LIFE magazine, and AUB in the 1950s
- alternatives to disaster photographs
Recommended Websites
- (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
- 3 Quarks Daily
- 5b4 (about photo books)
- Arab Image Foundation
- ArteEast
- Ashkal Alwan
- BAGnewsNotes
- Bidoun magazine
- borderless culture
- David Campbell - Photography, Multimedia, Politics
- Daylight Magazine (documentary photography)
- MERIP / Middle East Report magazine
- Michelle Woodward (my website)
- Nafas: Online Islamic world art mag
- No Caption Needed
- Qantara: Dialogue with Islamic World
- The Compelling Image
- The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
- ~ on media engagement
Recommended Reading
- "Guerrilla marketing" by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Jan 2, 2009
An interesting review of Zeina Maasri's new book "Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War"
