Is ISIL/Daesh biggest threat to Saudi Arabia?: mosque of Secret Police bombed
Another suicide bomb hit Saudi Arabia on Thursday, this time at a mosque inside a Special Forces headquarters in Asir, southwest of Saudi Arabia, killing 15 people and injuring nine. The attack, by ISIS, was carried out by Abu Sinan Al Najdi.
Signs that you grew up in Lebanon
I’ve spent my entire life in Lebanon, and while I absolutely love this country, I can’t help but notice some very…“special” cultural traits that are exclusive to us Lebanese. Here are a few telling signs that you were raised in Lebanon.
Time travel booth: Middle East by Inge Morath
Chris Boot, a former director of Magnum Photos, wrote the following lines about the great photographer Inge Morath:
“Inge Morath was, above all, a traveller. Her approach to a story was ‘to let it grow’, without any apparent concern for narrative structure, trusting in her experience and interests to shape her work rather than in an editorial formula. She unsentimentally made pictures that were guided by her relationship to a place. These relationships were invariably intimate and long-lasting; she regularly revisited the places she chose to photograph and learned the relevant language… Similarly, her photographs of people are born of intimacy without sentimentality.”
