dispatches from here » where am i? http://anobelodisho.com/blog wherever i am... Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:53:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 10 weeks in 3 minutes http://anobelodisho.com/blog/2009/05/29/10-weeks-in-3-minutes/ http://anobelodisho.com/blog/2009/05/29/10-weeks-in-3-minutes/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 01:14:23 +0000 ano http://anobelodisho.com/blog/?p=389 As many of you readers know, I spent the 10 weeks starting Feb 12 in the Middle East, through Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. The core of that time was spent in Syria, living in an Iraqi refugee camp and putting together a documentary film (more on that later).

To keep things interesting and to log my travels, each day I took a photo telling the story of that day somehow. Most of them were done with a tripod and wireless remote, with an occasional bystander snapping the photo. I tried to switch things up, and the fact that I didn’t spend much time in the same place helped out.

Check out the complete slideshow below, 10 weeks of daily photos while bopping around the Middle East.

Hit the play button to get started.

 


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Furiously working away on the project, editing and sorting photos while Adam does video. Somewhat difficult to get anything done when the power keeps going out.

Furiously working away on the project, editing and sorting photos while Adam does video. Somewhat difficult to get anything done when the power keeps going out. Our days are broken up into interviews, photo sessions, eating, and putting the final product together.

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Currently taking a short break to Aleppo (Halab), but traveling light and left the laptop in Damascus, so no pictures for you yet.  After a day of rest and a day of hitting the crowded souq, today was ruins exploration day in the countryside around Aleppo.  Started out early and made it to Qala’at Samaan (a basilica to St. Simeon on a huge rocky outcropping) , Dier Samaan (tiny village with no roads/cars),  Ain Dara (10th century BCE Temple to Ishtar with carved lions and sphinxes in the fertile Kurdish countryside), and finally to Afreen (a Kurdish town about 20 kilometers from the Turkish border.

Covered quite a lot of ground, thanks to a little bit of Arabic and a fair amount of hitch-hiking in:

  • A giant yellow dump truck with two Mohammeds and an Ahmed
  • A motorcycle with a red and white khuffiyeh flapping in my face
  • The back of a manure truck (mostly, but not completely, empty)
  • A bread delivery truck (smelled much better than the manure truck)
  • A pickup with Mustafa
  • And finally, a few mini-buses

Pictures and etc to follow (should be back in Damascus by the end of the week).  Tomorrow heading to the ancient city of Ebla, which was sacked and destroyed by Sargon of Akkad in 2250 BCE, and the dead/abandoned Byzantine cities of Serjilla, Ruweiha, Jerada, and Al-Bara.  The goal is sunrise is Serjilla, which supposedly sits in a deep basin and fills with mist in the mornings.

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]]> http://anobelodisho.com/blog/2009/02/13/downtown-amman/feed/ 1 this is where it starts… http://anobelodisho.com/blog/2009/02/10/this-is-where-it-starts/ http://anobelodisho.com/blog/2009/02/10/this-is-where-it-starts/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:43:19 +0000 ano http://anobelodisho.com/blog/?p=4 A recurring theme on this blog will GPS updates. I’ll be posting my coordinates periodically because at this point I dont have a clear itinerary (which I’m very happy about, but a lot of people can’t seem to wrap their heads around). I will also be geo-tagging some of my photos and putting up maps, so you’ll be able to follow my tracks and see where in the world certain photos were taken.


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