The weather is nicer in the summer, but the country is cheaper in the late winter, and more interesting. No traffic, quiet beaches, empty amusement parks and nature as it should be -- America's negative space brings its own kind of attraction, one that reveals how things are before getting spruced up for the summer crowds.02 April 2009
Off-Season Road Trip
The weather is nicer in the summer, but the country is cheaper in the late winter, and more interesting. No traffic, quiet beaches, empty amusement parks and nature as it should be -- America's negative space brings its own kind of attraction, one that reveals how things are before getting spruced up for the summer crowds.
19 December 2008
On Air With Liberian News Radio
MONROVIA, Liberia -- Liberia's media were just one more casualty of the country's 14-year civil war. Now, five years since the warlord and president, Charles Taylor, has been removed from power and charged with war crimes, Liberia's journalists still struggle with how to rebuild themselves to serve as a vital component of the country's nascent democracy.Click here to read the story in The Christian Science Monitor.
26 November 2008
The Heart of Occupation
Seven hundred hardcore Jewish settlers live among 160,000 Palestinians in Hebron, a city considered almost as holy as Jerusalem. Last week, an Israeli court ordered settlers to leave a home that the court determined they were occupying illegally. The settlers, who are no strangers to violence, refused. Now, a tense waiting game ensues while the army prepares to uphold the ruling.The Jewish section of the city is a closed military zone, and I was denied access (see the video on the Multiple Reality Disorder blog). So I visited the majority Arab part, to see for myself what living under heavy occupation is like.
25 November 2008
The Acre Aftermath
On the eve of Yom Kippur last month, an Arab man drove through a Jewish area in the mixed city of Acre. A group of Jewish youths attacked him and, though he escaped unharmed, the incident sparked a series of violent clashes between Jews and Arabs, resulting in damage to dozens of shops and cars, and 16 homes of Arab families were attacked. Fourteen of those families were temporarily displaced, and three remain unsettled because their homes were destroyed.
13 October 2008
Single Images of Liberia: Media in Monrovia
A 10-day State Department-funded media exchange brings us to Liberia's capital, Monrovia, for meetings with UN, government and media officials.
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