Commarts Webpick of the Week
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 [...]
Granta 116: Ten Years Later, Event Dates
To mark the release of Granta 116: Ten Years Later, in which my newest article appears, I’ll be participating in three events on the East Coast in early September.
Here are the event details:
MADISON, CT
R.J. JULIA BOOKSELLERS
6 September, 7 p.m., 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, CT 06443
One day in September, a decade ago, all eyes were [...]
Assignment Afghanistan wins Digital “Ellie”!
Assignment Afghanistan—my ongoing collaboration with the Virginia Quarterly Review—won the 2011 National Magazine Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors for Best Multimedia Package, beating out National Geographic and New York Magazine.You can see the press release and see a photo of my editor Ted Genoways accepting the award (I was in Afghanistan) here.
I’m [...]
Voices of Tahrir — Wust El-Balad
Voices of Tahrir — Wust El-Balad from Elliott Woods on Vimeo.
“On the eighteenth night of protests in Tahrir Square, Cairo, the legendary Egyptian band Wust El-Balad (Downtown) took to the stage, singing songs about liberation and freedom and Egyptian culture. At the end of this song, the crowd erupted into a chant of “Horriya!” or, [...]
Cairo Journal: February 4, on VQR Blog
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.
Voices of Tahrir — Fathi Saleh, 30
Voices of Tahrir — Fathi Saleh from Elliott Woods on Vimeo.
Fathi Saleh, 30, a protester in Tahrir Square, Cairo, calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for three decades—since Fathi was born.
Tens of thousands of other protesters began gathering in Tahrir Square and in other locatioins throughout Cairo and other [...]
VQR Interview: 6 Questions for Elliott Woods
VQR interviewed me a few weeks ago about the reporting and writing process for my recent story, “The Path to Yaghestan,” about my October-November 2009 embed with the 10th Mountain Division in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. You can find the interview here: “6 Questions for Elliott Woods.”
If you scroll through earlier posts in VQR’s blog, you’ll [...]
In New York for Overseas Press Club Awards
I took the bus from central Pennsylvania this morning to New York for the Overseas Press Club Awards. I was lucky enough to be cited in the Madeline Dane Ross Award category for best international reporting in the print medium showing a concern for the human condition for my VQR story “Hope’s Coffin,” about young [...]
Video: On Patrol with Apache Company
Check out the video I posted to the VQR’s blog of a counterinsurgency patrol through the Tangi Valley with 2nd Platoon Apache Company, 2-87 Infantry Regiment 10th Mountain Division. The platoon is profiled in my story, “The Path to Yaghestan.”
Launching new site!
As soon as I figure out how to navigate Wordpress, this site should really start to take shape. Stay tuned.
