Why We Should be Petrified of US Diplomacy
In the four weeks I’ve been in Libya I’ve been struck by many things, but most of all by a pervasive anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic sentiment. Graffiti outside my hotel claims that Gaddafi is an agent of Mossad and it’s general knowledge in the street that his grandmother is Jewish. “Is that a problem,” I asked [...]
Every Story Has a Song
I develop a song obsession on each story. Libya’s long desert drives are perfect for my new one:
A Recent Article
Here’s a recent article I did for my friends at the Common Language Project
Stealing Images
It appears that TV stations and newspaper websites have used my Telegraph photos of the downed US jet without permission. If you have seen the photographs of the jet anywhere but on the Telegraph website, please let me know. Thanks.
A Piece of Luck and a Bag of Oranges
When our driver pulled up this morning, Rob and I had no idea that in a few hours we’d be breaking a world exclusive story about the American Jet that crashed in Libya. And we certainly didn’t expect it to come from a rumor. But, Majid, our driver was so sure that this story of [...]
Return
Just arrived back in Benghazi, Libya. It’s more tense than when I left a few days ago. More regular updates, photos, and videos on their way…
War Sounds
War is not quiet. In fact, it is the opposite: loud. Very loud. Photographs, on the other hand, don’t make any noise. They don’t even move. So it is really hard (although not impossible) to translate the sounds and chaos of war into a photograph. Recently on the New York Times Lens Blog, Tyler Hicks [...]
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