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Recent Posts
- 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
- New issue of Middle East Report out now - The US in the Middle East
- New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery
- At home in Baltimore
- NYC and Catherine Opie
My published essays
- 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.] - Between Orientalist Clichés and Images of Modernization: Photographic Practice in the Late Ottoman Era
History of Photography, Winter 2003, Vol. 27, No. 4.
Recommended Websites
- (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
- 3 Quarks Daily
- 5b4 (about photo books)
- Arab Image Foundation
- ArteEast
- Ashkal Alwan
- Bidoun magazine
- borderless culture
- Daylight Magazine (documentary photography)
- MERIP / Middle East Report magazine
- Michelle Woodward (my website)
- Nafas: Online Islamic world art mag
- Qantara: Dialogue with Islamic World
- 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"
