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Aug 8, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey |Moises Saman
Listen to this article, read by Prentice Onayemi Image Credit... The New York Times Sudan's war has left nearly 11 million people displaced from their homes - more than the entire population of New York City, and currently the single largest population of internal refugees anywhere in the world. One U.S. State Department official estimated in May that as many as 150,000 people might be dead in the fighting, though the chaos has made an accurate body count impossible.
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May 28, 2024 | 
niemanreports.org | Moises Saman
The ebb and flow of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been very present in Jordan, where one of every five of its inhabitants is a Palestinian. Of these 2.3 million registered Palestinian refugees in Jordan, most have obtained Jordanian citizenship and are an integral part of the social fabric of the kingdom, but a considerable number live in the same 13 refugee camps that were set up in Jordan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the Six-Day War in 1967.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Moises Saman
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE — People in Cairo celebrating the announcement of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation as president of Egypt on Feb. 11, 2011. President Xi Jinping of China Xi saw lessons in the “Arab Spring” uprisings that had toppled corrupt authoritarian leaders across the Middle East.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
wsj.com | Moises Saman |Chao Deng
On Sept. 10, Storm Daniel made landfall in Derna, a fishing port on the coast of Libya. The heavy rain broke two dams soon after, unleashing a torrent that swept away entire neighborhoods with families still trapped inside apartment buildings and cars.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
buffalonews.com | Moises Saman
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Secular Israeli demonstrators prepare to march in support of womens rights and against increased gender-based discrimination and segregation in Israeli society, in Ramat Gan, Israel on Aug. 24, 2023.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Patrick Kingsley |Moises Saman
Israelis are deeply split about what kind of country Israel should be. Four encounters at four recent protests show how that division plays out in daily life. A judicial crisis has become a proxy for a broad battle among Israelis about the future of their country, as well as about what it means to be both a Jewish state and a democratic one. Credit...
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Moises Saman |Ben Smith
Magnum Photographer Moises Saman on the catalyst that was 9/11, learning the ropes in Afghanistan, his eight days captive in Abu Ghraib prison, surviving a helicopter crash, the myth of objectivity, trying to show a more nuanced picture, “the framing of the frame”, and facts, truth & questioning.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
niemanreports.org | Moises Saman
In August 2014, I was on assignment for TIME to cover the rapid advance of Islamic State fighters from Syria into parts of northern Iraq. Their advance had forced the mass exodus of the local Yazidi population, a religious minority that has lived in this border region for centuries.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Moises Saman
I first visited Iraq in October 2002, barely a year after the United States attacked Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. I went there as a photojournalist, invited by the government of Saddam Hussein to cover the presidential referendum in which, according to Iraqi officials, 100 percent of the population voted to extend his rule. It was my first experience working under the supervision of government minders, without freedom of movement, only allowed to cover pro-regime events.
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Mar 19, 2023 | 
nybooks.com | Moises Saman
I first visited Iraq in October 2002, barely a year after the United States attacked Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. I went there as a photojournalist, invited by the government of Saddam Hussein to cover the presidential referendum in which, according to Iraqi officials, 100 percent of the population voted to extend his rule. It was my first experience working under the supervision of government minders, without freedom of movement, only allowed to cover pro-regime events.
