VQR Web Exclusive: Easter in Gaza
I had been itching to do one last story from Gaza before I left earlier this month, and Easter in Gaza gave me the perfect opportunity. The ceremony was pure magic, and it was truly bizarre to find such a colorful and festive undertaking happening in the middle of the night in the Old City of Gaza, just a stone’s throw from the Al-Umari Mosque, a bastion of Hamas supporters.
VQR spurred me to go out and cover it and write a blog entry with a couple of photos for the web site. I have a tendency to be a bit longwinded—I got carried away and wrote nearly six thousand words. VQR was kind enough to release the whole story as a “web exclusive.” You can read the whole thing and check out the photos—which turned out great, as photos of people in costumes with dramatic lighting and stage props usually do—on the VQR website here: “Easter in Gaza.”
