Wake up, babe the 23/24 Gender Theory and the Study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East reading list just dropped

this video. her words. the sound of bombs in the distance. the magnitude of this loss.

Palestinian refugee youth in Ain al-Hilweh, Lebanon, March 31, 2017 Since 1948, 1 generation has turned into 2, 3, even 4 generations queuing to jump on a trampoline in a refugee camp in Lebanon instead of in a backyard in Palestine. Enough. Free Palestine.

Read the full story from Lam Le, with photography from Chris Trinh: Why Samsung factory workers in Vietnam are becoming beauticians restofworld.org/2023/samsung-f…

When I 1st visited Yen Phong where there're 2 Samsung factories in 2018, I was struck by the ubiquity of beauty salons there. This year, I learned that the salons are also academies, training workers to prepare to quit the factories 📸 Chris Trinh restofworld.org/2023/samsung-f…

I am creating a visual storytelling column for The Washington Post and I would love to hear your pitches. I’m looking to hire photojournalists with amazing, incisive, conversation-starting story ideas. Come get some $$$. More information here: docs.google.com/document/d/12-…

When I worked The New York Times, speaking up abt biased coverage of Palestine was always met w/ repression. So often, the call was coming from inside the 🏠 To b a journalist & then abdicate our responsibility to accountability to save our jobs while ppl r dying is to me unconscionable🧵

casual sunday in beirut 🍉🍉

This week, I got to do something that journalists are not always given the opportunity to do after they publish stories: return to the community they spent months reporting at to distribute the story in person. 🧵

Broad call for all MENA/Muslim journalists: are you feeling let down/angry with the media landscape right now? Do you want to continue with your work or are you thinking of leaving the industry? I'm working on something right now and could use some perspective.

"The water is both a source of healing and a site of terror, a cradle of freedom and a resting place for death, a harbinger of disaster and a place of shelter and safety." atmos.earth/for-black-arch…

“If there are no journalists... the Israeli army becomes the source of information.” Press freedom groups point to a 'pattern' of the Israeli military killing clearly identified journalists in the Gaza Strip aje.io/1p4irk

Writing this book was a labor of love and resistance. It came from my life in war and my years of learning how to resist with love and life a heartless enemy driven by hate and hubris. I spent the two decades after 2006 with families in their homes in frontline villages in South

When people ask me what first stole my breath outside of Gaza, I always say, the sky. Not the sky I grew up with; thick with the hum of drones, a canvas of constant surveillance. But a sky so quiet, so vast, it felt like it could swallow me whole. For the first time, I could look

Foto del día: © Chris Trinh - Chris Trinh Dos amigas se encuentran para una charla con distancia social junto al mar, durante el primer verano de la pandemia. Los profesionales de la salud mental advierten sobre el impacto del aislamiento social en mayores. Sitges, 05/08/20

Looks like an interesting read--a book about the experiences of a judicial interpreter of Vietnamese, whose work often deals with cases involving migrant workers, and who is herself an immigrant from Vietnam when young opinion.cw.com.tw/blog/profile/5…