Equines in Exile: Riding Mozambique’s Bazaruto Archipelago The horse riding business born out of an extraordinary rescue mission of 104 horses. The New York Times – June 20, 2022 With a map in one hand and a cold beer in the other, I sat alone at the bar of the Baobab Beach Backpackers Lodge…
MOSUL’S MEDICS: REFLECTIONS OF WAR, FOUR YEARS ON “The whole experience truly changed me… It gives me constant perspective of my small problems in this world.” – Katie Batrouney, frontline medic, Mosul, Iraq Amid the chaos and intensity of the battle against ISIS in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a critically injured girl was…
Village to village: A journey along the Ghanaian coast The wooden platform beneath me shuddered, shaking me out of my slumber. Under a moonlit sky, I crept outside of the homestay hut and stepped out onto the boardwalk. Across the water I could vaguely see the silhouettes of people gathered in the village. Women…
From Wales to Wyoming: A decade discovering the great American West The New York Times – July 26, 2021 My horse’s ears were pricked, his muscles tensed and ready to bolt. A few meters ahead, a herd of wild horses stared back at us, unaware of our ascent from the valley below until that…
AFTERMATH: RETURNING TO THE RUINS OF MOSUL’S OLD CITY Seventy-five-year-old Kasim Hussein took a long puff of his cigarette while he stood outside the ruins of his once beautiful home. “Every day we saw people dying,” he recalled of life under Islamic State control in the ancient quarter of the city of Mosul in northern…
THE FORGOTTEN GENERATIONS: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN IRAQ Born in a country where they cannot become citizens, Palestinians in Iraq face an uncertain future with little hope of escaping life as stateless refugees. Erbil, Iraq – Inside Baharka IDP camp, a government-run refugee camp that provides emergency shelter for over 4,000 internally displaced people, eighteen…
“WE ARE VICTIMS TOO”: THE WOMEN ISIS LEFT BEHIND “Iraq is like a flock of sheep with no shepherd,” said Mariam, a grieving mother whose son joined the so-called Islamic State and was killed during the battle to liberate the city of Mosul. In the aftermath of the months-long military operation to wrest back…
Iraq’s Yazidis gather to celebrate the first New Year since defeat of ISIS in northern Iraq April 2018 The typically quiet road that winds up the mountain valley was crowded with cars inching their way towards the parking lot as lines of people eagerly hiked towards Lalish, the holiest temple of the Yazidi faith. Located…
“From Burqas to Beauty Queens”: Inside Iraq’s Booming Beauty Industry In a country scarred by decades of war and unrest, beauty centers across Iraq are opening their doors to men and women exercising a renewed sense of freedom and empowerment post-conflict. From lip fillers and Botox to breast implants and liposuction, cosmetic treatment is…
Ponies with Purpose: Preserving the heritage of Wales’ mountain herds The New York Times – January 24, 2022 The hardy Welsh Mountain Ponies have roamed the hills and mountains of Wales for centuries. With their numbers now in decline, Hooftrek is on a mission to give the ponies a renewed purpose and restored commercial…
