Turkish Forces Continue Siege on Northern Iraq
Turkish forces continued to pound Northern Iraq today in a grand show of force against Kurdish forces after yesterday’s scandalous revelations by the Turkish daily Taraf that the army had apparently ignored intelligence reports that the October 3 PKK attacks were imminent. The breaking news supports a commonly held theory that the PKK and Turkish [...]
ALERT: Somali Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Canadian and Australian Journalists
Amanda Lindhout
While I was in Afghanistan last summer I met a young, budding photojournalist named Amanda Lindhout. She was kidnapped this past August in Somalia along with her Australian colleague Nigel Brennan and their Somali translator, Abdifatah Mohammed. This story has hardly been publicized in the international press, and it’s so telling of the [...]
Turkish Forces Bomb Northern Iraq
I take back what I said in my previous post, as the Turkish army has announced it bombed 31 targets inside northern Iraq since October 4. I guess I was too busy packing to check the news properly. The seventh air raid took place yesterday, although, as a caveat, I must note that many believe [...]
And Now for Something Completely Different II
On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in the UK with the Poets in Translation group which has recently funded the translation of their work into English. Here are two of my favorite portraits:
Asaddiq [...]
