Bakdash Ice Cream Parlor Is there still ice cream in Syria? I visited Syria in 2001 and 2004. Beautiful country with warm, friendly people. It wasn’t perfect, not by a long shot. Even if you went there without knowing it was an authoritarian police state with a history of brutal crackdowns by Hafez Assad, you probably would have been able
35mm Palmyra, Syria 2001 Palmyra, Syria*, summer 2001. The photo is not very good. I’m posting it for two reasons. It’s from my first attempt at scanning 35mm film negatives on the Epson V800 [https://epson.com/Support/Scanners/Perfection-Series/Epson-Perfection-V800-Photo/s/SPT_B11B223201] flatbed photo scanner. I used the basic scanning
Fujifilm Ilan Pappé at Town Hall Seattle: Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine On Monday 22 May 2017, historian Ilan Pappé [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Pappé] spoke at Town Hall Seattle in a forum titled “Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine [https://townhallseattle.org/event/ilan-pappe/].” Mr. Pappé, an outspoken critic of Israeli policies towards Palestine and the Palestinians, spoke about the
Film Syria, before the storm I’ve started on a second archival project. Scanning and preserving photos I took in the Middle East in the early 2000s. The photos are flawed. I was using a Nikon 8008. Great camera, but even though I knew the basics, I got the settings wrong more often than not.
