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One Picture, A Thousand Words
Charles Glass & Don McCullin
Charles Glass
Charles Glass has been a regular visitor to Syria since 1973. His books on the Middle East include Tribes with Flags: A Journey Curtailed, The Northern Front and Syria Burning. He was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983 to 1993.
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Don McCullin is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography in Cyprus, Egypt, Syria and Vietnam. He was the first photographer to be awarded a CBE.
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Palmyra
Charles Glass & Don McCullin
‘ISIS’s second conquest of Palmyra astonished everyone, and fed the belief in a Syrian government conspiracy to assist ISIS.’
Over There
Various Contributors
Americans, speaking of foreign lands, often say, 'It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.'
The Bank Manager
Charles Glass
‘In the south of France, at the edge of a cove that cannot be reached by road, lives an old woman from England.’
The Cage
Tong Wei-Ger
‘The islanders held him in a large dog cage under a banyan tree by the village square, awaiting the day when someone would convey him to a prison camp.’
Fiction by Tong Wei-Ger, translated by Tony Hao.