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  • Outside a church, Lucknow
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  • Street scene
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  • Street scene, Luckhnow
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  • At the shrine of Data Pir, Junagadh, Gujarat
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  • At the Deva Sharif dargah
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  • At the Shrine of Deva Sharif
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  • Street scenes, Luckhnow
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  • At the Shrine of Deva Sharif, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
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  • At the Dusshera, Ram Leela celebration in Luckhnow
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  • At a local shrine
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  • Street scenes, Luckhnow
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  • A view of the temple of Kanifnath from Madhi village.
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  • Street scene
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  • At the Sabarimala pilgrimage
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  • Scene outside a local restaurant
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  • Turin5 008
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  • The morning after Ganapati Utsava
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  • At the Sabarimala pilgrimage, Hindu pilgrims exit Vavar's mosque after a circumnavigation and head towards the shrine.
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  • Families rest and play at the gates of the Nagnath
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  • A local shopping mall
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  • At the Sabarimala festival, a local photo studio
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  • Hair salon
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  • Street scene
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  • Worker on a roof of a local church
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  • Muthi refugee camps for displacd Kashmiri pandits
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  • Street scene
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  • Street scene, Kohlapur, Gujarat
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  • Unemployed men sit out the day
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  • Street scene, Bet Dwarka
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  • The Nizamuddin Dargah, New Delhi
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  • Mandap tableaux and attendants at the Ganapati Utsava
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  • Street scene
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  • At the Sabarimala pilgrimage, Hindu pilgrims exit Vavar's mosque after a circumnavigation and head towards the shrine.
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  • At a photo studio in Erumeli, Kerala
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  • At the bus stand at dusk, Dwarka, Gujarat
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  • Outside an eye clinic
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  • barber shop scene
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  • Street scene, Matancherry, Kerala
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  • Amil Sarsour, from Safad, Palestine, whose family left their home city of Safad in 1948. Amil was born in the camps in a refugee camp in Syria in 1956. Amil holds up an artists drawing of the town of Safad as it looked in the 1940s. Amil used this map when he last visited Safad now in Israel, and also offered the Azaan, the Muslim call to prayer, outside his father's home. He tells of being surrounded by a hostile crowd which was only held back by an elderly Jewish man who happened to have rememnered Amil's grandfather and warned the people to not stop Amil. 'This is his family's house. He is not come to take it from you', the old man shourted at the crownd.' Let him say his prayers. We stole this from them. Now he just wants to pay his respects'.
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  • Okara, Punjab, Pakistan. 2008. Supportors of the punjab provincial assembly candidate mehr abdul sattar foot at a rally in support of his candidacy - abdul sattar is the first man from a landless community to contest a seat at the provincial assembly level
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  • bari imam shrine, islamabad, pakistan 2004: a devotee prostrates himself at the bari imam's grave.  hundreds of housands will arrive at this site during the 5 day annual 'urs' and pray to the holy man for intervention and help with their problems.<br />
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  • bari imam shrine, islamabad, pakistan 2004: musicians sing 'qawwalis' in honor of bari imam and his services to man while a devotee after a night of worship sleeps nearby.  such all night/all day musical sessions are a regular feature of the annual 'urs' and are attended by thousands<br />
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  • bari imam shrine, islamabad pakistan 2004: a man dances at an all night devotional music session. dance and music are used to help devotees achieve an ecstatic state of mind<br />
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  • pakistan army soldiers man a mountain side post - the army continues its search for militants in the area of swat - there are nearly 30,000 soldiers now in this once idylic tourist area
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  • Pakistani Army soldiers man a roadside check point in search of suspected islamic militants who have been carrying out a bombing campaign across the region.  Despite the presence of nearly 30,000 soldiers, the militants have been able to hit government and civilian targets with disturbing consistency and ensure the instability in this remote, though once idylic tourist region
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  • Pakistani Army soldiers man a road check point in search of suspected Islamic militants who have been carrying out a bombing campaign against government and civilian targets.  nearly 30,000 soldiers have been bought to the region but the war against the militant continues relentlessly with little sign of them stopping their campaign
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  • a man picks coal, bought to peshawar from as far away as chakwal in the punjab, to place into the fire pits where the bricks are baked.  jalozai, peshawar, pakistan.  september 2003&#xA;&#xA;copyright asim rafiqui 2003<br />
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  • bari imam shrine, islambad, pakistan 2004: a sadhu or holy man is visited by a devotee of the bari imam seeking advice on life and matters of the heart.  these holy men perform a similar function at shrines as hindu holy men and are frequently asked by the local population for help with problems of life and advice on money,love, success and such.  holy men have given up the life of materialism and spend their time moving from shrine to shrine relying on the genorosity of the followers.<br />
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  • Amil Sarsour, from Safad, Palestine, whose family left their home city of Safad in 1948. Amil was born in the camps in a refugee camp in Syria in 1956. He tells the story of how his father was famous for having shot a mountain lion in the early 1940s. People remembered his father as 'the man who shot a lion' and this lion claw is evidence of that achievement.
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  • bari imam shrine, islamabad, pakistan 2004: a holy man sits infront of a large sign that says "Ali", a reference to the Prophets (PBUH) nephew revered by the Shia<br />
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  • a man prepares moulds from which the principal portions of the guns are prepared.  the moulds are filled with metal dust and then heated and melted to created the main firing mechanisms of pump action shot guns.  darra adam khel, tribal areas, pakistan.  september 2003.&#xA;&#xA;copyright asim rafiqui 2003<br />
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  • Potrait of a Hunza man.
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  • She was a shadow in a doorway looking at me as I walked away from the devastation of the Samoni family compound where 27 members of the clan had been killed by Israeli forces. A few minutes later a man cautiously walked up to me and asked if I would like to speak to Ranya Samoni, the wife of Eyad Samoni, one of the Samoni clan who had died? I hesitated long enough for him to say She wants to speak to you.<br />
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The massacre of the Samoni clan at the hands of Israeli soldiers has be reported by every major print, TV and internet news organization covering the aftermath of Israeli's Operation Cast Lead. But that afternoon I and writer Elliott Woods were the audience to one woman talking about her one husband and explaining to us the meaning and consequences of her one, personal loss. <br />
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Behind the story about the clan there were still the individuals left to carry individual pain and loss.
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  • The last time I saw Ahdaf Soueif, the Egyptian writer, she was thrusting a bundle of Euro notes into my hand and pleading that I find a man named Hashim El Qudrah in the Jabaliya refugee camp and give him the money. "He needs it." she said to me, "His family is desperate- please get it to him."<br />
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He greeted me with caution. Crippled by age and unable to leave his home, he and his two wives had lived through 22 days of hell as Israeli jets, helicopters, tanks and soldiers rained havoc around their small home. <br />
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"Trapped like animals, and living like animals." he explained. "I have nothing in the house - I cannot serve you anything."<br />
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I had added to his humiliations; after a month of many deaths, now the inability to offer hospitality to a guest.
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  • Market scene in the city of Quetta - young man standing outside a restaurant showing Indian movies while in the back ground another hotel-keeper prepares for the morning's customers.
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  • "So you can just walk across into Egypt?"<br />
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I had come to Mahmud Ankah's home to learn about the death of one of his relatives, killed during an Israeli military strike in the Beit Lahiya camp. Throughout my interview with his family members he had sat at the back of the room and listened. A good-looking 18-year-old, dressed in designer jeans and sporting a baseball cap, he had entered the room without fuss and quietly placed himself in a corner. <br />
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Later when he approached me I thought that he may want to speak about his experiences of the conflict. Instead he plied me with questions about traveling to different countries and in particular, about the process of walking across an international border.<br />
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For the next hour I told him tales of my experiences with customs officials, immigration bureaucracies, conflict borders manned by armed gunmen and the many mishaps and travesties I have faced while traveling the world. His excitement could not have been less had I told him about alien life on other planets!
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