Blog Requiem Sorry for the dramatic title or subject line. I got in my car today and the classical music station was playing Mozart's Requiem. Texted some friends and told them if they hadn't listened to it in a while, they should. One friend wrote back, I think sarcastically, that he'd fire
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
Buzzfeed Consuming Journalism: Unnamed sources aren't bad, using them poorly is After the recent G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, President Trump took to Twitter [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884142582191849474] to make a reference to a ceasefire of some kind in Syria that he brokered in talks with President Putin. On 10 July 2017, Buzzfeed posted an article by Nancy Youssef
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
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.
