Boston Photographer, tweeting about Egypt, the Middle East, and the photojournalism community. https://teapaw.org/t.co/kQ7wY3Xb7H https://teapaw.org/t.co/Mthb2WGs8n
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Absolute horror on Al Jazeera. Live footage confirms the US and Israel are actively following through on threats to bomb civilian railway lines in Iran. Rescue workers are desperately pulling innocent commuters from the wreckage. These war crimes are sickening.
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My new @washingtonpost column. Who do Americans (seem to) love conspiracy theories — and do they actually believe them?
Conspiracies such as the Jeffrey Epstein saga are fueled by feelings of decline and loss of power, @shadihamid writes. wapo.st/41dOkz0
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Chapels, orchards, land & 100+ buildings maintained since antiquity, commemorating early chapters of its history & still central to its mission today, pix of a few properties recently stripped from the Monastery of #StKatherine in #Egypt's controversial legal ruling @UNESCO
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Despite court decision that Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is unconstitutional, USG says it has no plans to release him. Khalil has been in detention for 3 months , hasn’t committed a crime
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NEW: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, we made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.
So @js_kaplan and I got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
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Police are responding to reports of gunshots at the Harvard Square train station, according to a Sunday alert from the Harvard University Police Department. The alert instructed affiliates to shelter in place.
@matanjosephy and @laurelmshugart report.
thecrimson.com/article/2025/…
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BREAKING: Harvard University is telling students in the area to shelter in place after a report of shots fired at the Harvard Square MBTA station. Search for suspect underway. on.nbcboston.com/XDpvjUg
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Israel’s military said on Monday that it was aiming to kill journalist Hassan Esleih — a journalist who has contributed photography and videography to Mada Masr along with many other regional and international outlets — in a bombing which struck a tent where more than 10 journalists were sheltering on Monday. The attack killed two people and injured Esleih, as well as eight others.
Originally from Khan Younis, Esleih’s work over two years of devastating aggression on the strip has documented countless airstrikes, successive waves of displacement, dire humanitarian conditions, prisoners’ accounts of arrest and detention, and the hazards of aerial aid-drops as well as community education and festive initiatives still taking place amid the war.
The attack on continues an increasingly aggressive series of assaults in which Israeli forces have targeted and killed over 200 journalists working in Gaza to cover the genocide.
For more details: bit.ly/3RCrTOP
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On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about a family that lost 15 women and children, and the legal questions these attacks raise
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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🚨 Two Sudan TV Journalists were killed after being targeted by an RSF militia drone on the grounds of the presidential palace. There are hundreds of soldiers at the Palace this morning yet the militia chose to target journalists, seemingly to punish them for reporting the defeat
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Sudanese Break Their Fast Together At Iftar During The Holy Month Of Ramadan.
#SudsneseCulture
من خصائص المُجتمع السوداني الإفطار الجماعي في الشوارع في شهر رمضان المُبارك
#ثقافة_سودانية – at Sudan
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The exhibition Photo Kegham of Gaza: Unboxing offers a rare glimpse into Gaza’s rich photographic past through the lens of Kegham Djeghalian, one of the strip’s first photographers. Curated by his grandson, Kegham Djeghalian Jr., the exhibition reconstructs a visual archive lost to war and displacement, presenting an alternative image of Gaza — one that resists the flattening humanitarian gaze.
Sara Rifky explores how Djeghalian’s archive disrupts narratives of devastation surrounding Gaza by restoring a picture of everyday life: families, celebrations, political figures and cultural vibrancy. In a moment when Gaza is relentlessly documented through destruction, these images challenge the dominant visual discourse, offering not just memory but a vision of Gaza “as whole, rooted and undeniable,” Rifky writes.
🔗 bit.ly/3EtOKsJ
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A highlight for me was interviewing @broskoski about his used-bookstore version of the web (@AREdotNA) ~ and finding some curious parallels between its polar opposite, @perplexity_ai
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Earlier this year in Sudan, I bumped into a fierce young woman with an incredible story. She shared it, hoping show how a brutal war has shattered lives.
Today her profile was on page 1 of @nytimes, and across two pages inside, with striking portraits by @ivorprickett.
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One of my most vivid memories is when three journalists and I were in Eastern Jabalia and we needed to connect our esims to edit and upload content of a massacre. We went to a home in Tal Al Zataar, a hill, as higher areas tend to have better connection.
We sat in a room but the connection was not good so I suggested we go into the other room. Less than 5 minutes later, the room we were in got bombed. People came over running thinking that we were killed but luckily there were only injuries.
This was one of the many times that I was moments away from death. I know that I’m targeted as a Palestinian but also as a journalist. Every single day I step out of my house and put on my vest press and I look behind at my family, not sure if I’ll see them again.
I hope you understand the risks we are taking to show you the truth. Even 15 months later, we continue to go out every single day and document the horrors that people in Gaza experience. We do this so that when God asks what did you do, we respond with “we did what we could.”
