Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Abdul-Ahad’s recent series from Iraq is moving and deeply saddening. In this clip, he raises a question that I haven’t seen covered elsewhere. The real loss in Iraq, he says, will be when this generation of children grow up, since these children will have grown up with sectarian violence, killing, and massive displacement due to war and uncertainty.

The correspondence is deeply sentimental, but the perspective is one that is seldom seen.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pm and is filed under journalism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. on June 16, 2008 at 9:47 pm Shinji Kuwayama wrote:

    Ghaith also has photos from Iraq in the Battlespace exhibition; I recommend checking them out.

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