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Ayub with the Kalashnikov. (Photo: Sebastian Meyer)
The following text and photos are excerpted from an email from my old Milton buddy Sebastian Meyer, a photojournalist currently on assignment in Iraq. We’ll be posting his dispatches as we receive them. —EWS
(…and for gawshsakes, Seb, be careful!)
There have been quite a few requests over the past two weeks for stories and pictures from Kurdistan, so now that I’m back in Erbil—clean and with access to the Internet—here are a few select stories and impressions, along with a few photos. (NB: All the photos that I’m on commission for I can’t send, so unfortunately we’ll have to make do with these.)
As some of you know, my first week in Erbil was, well, a little disappointing. Ayub, our field producer, calls it the “Most Boring City in Iraq,” which I’m sure some of you are glad to hear. I wasn’t. (more…)
