Adventures

The great mud mosque in Djenne, Mali, taken during a trip to West Africa in 2003.

The Niger river in Mali.

Another view of the Niger.

Members of the musical group Tinariwen, standing in the sands of the Sahara desert. The group performed at the Festival in the Desert, an annual event in Mali that brings musicians (and others) from around the world to the farthermost regions of the country. The 2003 festival took place in Essakane, Mali. Stories on the festival appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and a London magazine called The Wire.

Young men standing in the dunes of Essakane, in the Sahara desert.

Standing with the Malian singer Oumou Sangare, in the lobby of Sangare’s hotel in Bamako (Mali’s capital).

Looking out onto the snowy Alborz Mountains, which surround Tehran, taking during a trip to Iran in 2004. Several stories were published from the reporting trip, including a piece about Iran’s annual film festival, which some have compared to Cannes.

An anti-U.S. rally witnessed in Tehran during the 2004 trip to Iran.

A view from atop a church in Oxford, England, taken during a 2005-2006 Reuters Foundation fellowship at Oxford University.

Pianist Randy Weston playing with Gnawa musician Abdellah El Gourd (far right) in Tangier, Morocco, at Performing Tangier 2008.

An alleyway in the medina of Tangier, Morocco.

A coastal view of Tangier, Morocco, with Spain in the distance.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, designed by architect Frank Gehry – taken during a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program fellowship in 2013

The Sheats Goldstein Residence in the Los Angeles hills, known for its architecture and for being in the movie The Big Lebowski

Theater director Peter Sellars, at his home in Los Angeles with fellows from the 2013 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program

At the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, made famous by the book and movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. This image was taken during a 2016 reporting assignment to nearby Hilton Head, South Carolina to interview “Reel Bad Arabs”scholar Jack Shaheen for AramcoWorld magazine.

Inside the South Carolina house of Arab-American scholar Jack Shaheen, with a photo of him playfully punching boxer Muhammad Ali.

Outside NYU in New York on a cold winter morning, to interview academic colleagues of scholar Jack Shaheen, for a 2016 profile in AramcoWorld magazine.

Actor-director Giancarlo Esposito signing an autograph for a Saudi Arabian actor on the red carpet at Paramount Pictures Studios in November 2016. Hollywood figures gathered with Saudi filmmakers and actors for the inaugural “Saudi Film Days” event that showcased new movies from Saudi Arabia, written about in the March-April 2017 issue of AramcoWorld magazine.

Guests at a “Saudi Film Days” event in November 2016 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.