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		<title>In 2005, Syrian Troops Left Lebanon After Thirty Years Of Military Presence</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/12/03/in-2005-syrian-troops-left-lebanon-after-thirty-years-of-military-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dalia Khamissy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 2005, Syrian troops left Lebanon after thirty years of military presence. Like many others, Dhour El Choueir, a strategically located town, was left with broken down houses and desolate hotels the Syrian army had previously seized and occupied. These photos were taken there, the day after the troops left.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In April 2005, Syrian troops left Lebanon after thirty years of military presence. Like many others, Dhour El Choueir, a strategically located town, was left with broken down houses and desolate hotels the Syrian army had previously seized and occupied. These photos were taken there, the day after the troops left.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Echos Of Intimacy And Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/09/27/echos-of-intimacy-and-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that place fixes memory. But what happens when a place changes rapidly and utterly? In the project “Latent Now” from SEEK Volume 03 Qatar, SEEK studies the collective memory of Qatar that over the last 30 years has undergone a complete transformation, from the poverty of the pearl industry to a land of enormous wealth grounded in its oil and natural gas export. The result being a body of cinematic photographic work that meanders between what is ephemeral and what is absent, a tale of a country in flux.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is said that place fixes memory. But what happens when a place changes rapidly and utterly? In the project “Latent Now” from SEEK Volume 03 Qatar, SEEK studies the collective memory of Qatar that over the last 30 years has undergone a complete transformation, from the poverty of the pearl industry to a land of enormous wealth grounded in its oil and natural gas export. The result being a body of cinematic photographic work that meanders between what is ephemeral and what is absent, a tale of a country in flux.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Jumping Was My Dream When I Was A Child</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/09/13/jumping-was-my-dream-when-i-was-a-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diederik Meijer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this series of jumping pictures. Iraq is associated with the misery of war most of the time, especially in media representations. Jamal Penjweny reminds us there are normal people that are trying to live normal lifes down there too. Apart from that, the work shows a great sense of humor. At the end of his artist testimonial, Jamal makes the jumping business sound like a lost dream. But I think the work itself proves him wrong in that respect. The fact that he made this beautiful set of photographs means he still wants to fly by making the highest jump possible.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I love this series of jumping pictures. Iraq is associated with the misery of war most of the time, especially in media representations. Jamal Penjweny reminds us there are normal people that are trying to live normal lifes down there too. Apart from that, the work shows a great sense of humor. At the end of his artist testimonial, Jamal makes the jumping business sound like a lost dream. But I think the work itself proves him wrong in that respect. The fact that he made this beautiful set of photographs means he still wants to fly by making the highest jump possible.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Kabul Was A Popular Stop On The Hippie Trail</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/08/11/kabul-was-a-popular-stop-on-the-hippie-trail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophia Greiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It hasn’t been so long since Kabul was considered an open-minded metropolis. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Afghan capital was a popular stop on the hippie trail to southern Asia. Now, after thirty years of occupation and war, Afghanistan is struggling to reestablish its identity. Residents are pessimistic about the future. Rebuilding the city drags on, and the constant fear of new attacks has shaken people’s trust in NATO forces. "Crossing Kabul" is a portrait of today’s Kabul where, far from the fighting, normality is slow to return. German photographer Daniel Pilar focuses on everyday situations caught between tradition, Western influence and social progress.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It hasn’t been so long since Kabul was considered an open-minded metropolis. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Afghan capital was a popular stop on the hippie trail to southern Asia. Now, after thirty years of occupation and war, Afghanistan is struggling to reestablish its identity. Residents are pessimistic about the future. Rebuilding the city drags on, and the constant fear of new attacks has shaken people’s trust in NATO forces. "Crossing Kabul" is a portrait of today’s Kabul where, far from the fighting, normality is slow to return. German photographer Daniel Pilar focuses on everyday situations caught between tradition, Western influence and social progress.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Thematic City That Borders On The Absurd</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/07/19/a-thematic-city-that-borders-on-the-absurd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marta Daho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aleix Plademunt Perez: My work reflects on different social attitudes, analyzed through the landscape. I am interested in the landscape when it has a direct relationship with the social, with us. I’m interested in analyzing the landscape from a present perspective, from the moment of history in which I am living. I’m questioning why I have found the landscape in this way, how we use it, how we move about in it, and what we understand by the term ‘landscape’. Dubai has had the privilege of being able to create a city from scratch, from nothing. The city has the space and money to enable it to realize the dreams of a society. The city speaks of the desires, hopes and habits of today’s society. A city was built by appropriating Western symbols and taking them to the extreme, to the limit. The result is a thematic and fictionalized city which in many cases borders on the absurd.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Aleix Plademunt Perez: My work reflects on different social attitudes, analyzed through the landscape. I am interested in the landscape when it has a direct relationship with the social, with us. I’m interested in analyzing the landscape from a present perspective, from the moment of history in which I am living. I’m questioning why I have found the landscape in this way, how we use it, how we move about in it, and what we understand by the term ‘landscape’. Dubai has had the privilege of being able to create a city from scratch, from nothing. The city has the space and money to enable it to realize the dreams of a society. The city speaks of the desires, hopes and habits of today’s society. A city was built by appropriating Western symbols and taking them to the extreme, to the limit. The result is a thematic and fictionalized city which in many cases borders on the absurd.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Two Stories From Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/07/09/two-stories-from-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yumi Goto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two photo series from Iraq by Julie Adnan. The first, Born In Prison, shows women with their young children, photographed in prison in Erbil, Iraq. The second shows installations made with survivors of the 1988 gassing of Halabja, using photographs of their deceased family members.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Two photo series from Iraq by Julie Adnan. The first, Born In Prison, shows women with their young children, photographed in prison in Erbil, Iraq. The second shows installations made with survivors of the 1988 gassing of Halabja, using photographs of their deceased family members.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Phosphorus Bomb Landed On Her House</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/06/23/a-phosphorus-bomb-landed-in-her-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yumi Goto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black clouds of dust spread to cover the skies of the Gaza Strip in the early morning of Saturday 27th of December, 2008. Multiple Israeli war planes started a series of air raids in over than sixty different locations of police stations and compounds as the first day of a 23 days war in Gaza started. Palestinian medical sources in Gaza declared that at least 1300 Palestinians were killed, nearly a third of them children. Sabha Abu Halima's house was mostly destroyed by fire after it was hit by a phosphorus bomb that landed in her house. Sabha, her son Ali and granddaughter Farah (2), were seriously burnt. The father of the family, Sa'ad Alah Matr Abu Halima, and five of his children were killed.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Black clouds of dust spread to cover the skies of the Gaza Strip in the early morning of Saturday 27th of December, 2008. Multiple Israeli war planes started a series of air raids in over than sixty different locations of police stations and compounds as the first day of a 23 days war in Gaza started. Palestinian medical sources in Gaza declared that at least 1300 Palestinians were killed, nearly a third of them children. Sabha Abu Halima's house was mostly destroyed by fire after it was hit by a phosphorus bomb that landed in her house. Sabha, her son Ali and granddaughter Farah (2), were seriously burnt. The father of the family, Sa'ad Alah Matr Abu Halima, and five of his children were killed.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>All Of This Brought Me Back To My Love Of Science Fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/06/09/all-of-this-brought-me-back-to-my-love-of-science-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathalie Herschdorfer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["My son, there will be a post petrodollar economy in Arabia and it will be up to you create it." That is what Sheikh Maktoum’s father said in 1990, shortly before his death, says Swiss photographer Florian Joye. "I chose the United Arab Emirates to work on, and especially Dubai, for a variety of reasons. After googling Dubai on the net, my curiosity and interest were drawn to the confusing mass of Dubai images that can be found there. The vast juxtaposition of virtual images, scale models and augmented reality of which there were many more than real pictures of Dubai is confusing. The idea of the city preceded its reality. My fascination for this new city caught between utopia and excessiveness, pride and seduction is the palpable reality of the purpose o f Sheikh Maktoum."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["My son, there will be a post petrodollar economy in Arabia and it will be up to you create it." That is what Sheikh Maktoum’s father said in 1990, shortly before his death, says Swiss photographer Florian Joye. "I chose the United Arab Emirates to work on, and especially Dubai, for a variety of reasons. After googling Dubai on the net, my curiosity and interest were drawn to the confusing mass of Dubai images that can be found there. The vast juxtaposition of virtual images, scale models and augmented reality of which there were many more than real pictures of Dubai is confusing. The idea of the city preceded its reality. My fascination for this new city caught between utopia and excessiveness, pride and seduction is the palpable reality of the purpose o f Sheikh Maktoum."]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>These Children Are Almost Exclusively Sunni</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/04/15/these-children-are-almost-exclusively-sunni/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannamari Shakya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first is from the Al Ahlam compound in Khadamiyah, Baghdad. It was shot at the juvenile detention centre in early 2007, when the so-called surge by American forces was going on.Iraqi security forces, highly sectarian at the time, were also busy asserting themselves. These children were almost exclusively Sunni, and had seemingly for the most part been picked up for minor offenses, or simply rounded up in whole-sale sweeps of Sunni neighborhoods.Only one of the kids seemed to have been involved in really bad stuff: kidnappings and IEDs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The first is from the Al Ahlam compound in Khadamiyah, Baghdad. It was shot at the juvenile detention centre in early 2007, when the so-called surge by American forces was going on.Iraqi security forces, highly sectarian at the time, were also busy asserting themselves. These children were almost exclusively Sunni, and had seemingly for the most part been picked up for minor offenses, or simply rounded up in whole-sale sweeps of Sunni neighborhoods.Only one of the kids seemed to have been involved in really bad stuff: kidnappings and IEDs.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Soon, Hospitality Replaced Hostility And Suspicion</title>
		<link>http://www.bitemagazine.net/2010/04/07/hostility-and-suspicion-were-soon-replaced-by-hospitality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo de Beijer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I find interesting is that I guess the majority of us expects a different world view from Dvir, being a descendant of Israel. But he does the opposite. His choice is to use his professional life as a photographer to get close. And by getting close in images he shows me the world and growing up of people that he is supposed to call 'the enemy'. He gives me hope with his portraits and even very literally in his words when I quote Natan Dvir:

"If I, a Jewish Israeli man, have been accepted and was allowed into my subjectsʼ personal lives – so can other."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What I find interesting is that I guess the majority of us expects a different world view from Dvir, being a descendant of Israel. But he does the opposite. His choice is to use his professional life as a photographer to get close. And by getting close in images he shows me the world and growing up of people that he is supposed to call 'the enemy'. He gives me hope with his portraits and even very literally in his words when I quote Natan Dvir:

"If I, a Jewish Israeli man, have been accepted and was allowed into my subjectsʼ personal lives – so can other."]]></content:encoded>
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