1. 22 Feb


    thepoliticalnotebook: This is the photograph for which Rémi Ochlik, the 28-year-old French photojournalist killed in Homs this morning, won first prize in the general news category of this year’s World Press Photo awards. Taken in Ras Lanuf, Libya, it shows a revolutionary fighter resting in front of the flag.

    thepoliticalnotebook:

    This is the photograph for which Rémi Ochlik, the 28-year-old French photojournalist killed in Homs this morning, won first prize in the general news category of this year’s World Press Photo awards. Taken in Ras Lanuf, Libya, it shows a revolutionary fighter resting in front of the flag.

     

  2. 17 Feb



    Steeped in Arab political history but also in its culture, Shadid recognized early on that along with the despots, old habits of fear, passivity and despair were being toppled. He brought a poet’s voice, a deep empathy for the ordinary person and an unmatched authority to his passionate dispatches.
    — Tributes pour in for New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid who died in Syria (via guardian)

    (Source: , via guardian)

     

  3. 9 Feb



    Syria Under Siege: Photographs by Alessio Romenzi