When I unzipped my rolling suitcase for the customs official at Cairo International Airport on Thursday night, February 3, a look of horror seized his face. “Koolu memnouaa,” he whispered to himself. “Everything is prohibited.”
Read the rest of my account my first day coming into the country that I used to call home here.
I spent four weeks in December 2011 and January 2012 in Iraq on behalf of Bloomberg Businessweek, working on a feature about the state of the country after the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The result is a cover story for the week of January 23 with an accompanying photo essay. Here’s the intro to the [...]
Assignment Afghanistan was a Communication Arts Webpick of the Week back in April, 2011.
Here’s an excerpt from their write-up:
The site features beautifully-produced multimedia videos and slideshows of Elliott’s reportage and an interaction map built on a Google map interface that plots his, and user-generated, stories geographically. Weaving together stunning stills, dramatic video [...]
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