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  • Award-winning photographer Moises Saman is offering a rare glimpse into the shadowy world of Kuwait's domestic workers with a brand-new photo gallery, observing their home conditions and daily life, for HRW.

    Human Rights Watch Kuwait Exhibit Sheds New Light On Massive Migrant Worker Community Curtis M. Wong 2010

  • Award-winning photographer Moises Saman is offering a rare glimpse into the shadowy world of Kuwait's domestic workers with a brand-new photo gallery, observing their home conditions and daily life, for HRW.

    Human Rights Watch Kuwait Exhibit Sheds New Light On Massive Migrant Worker Community The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • According to the L.A. Times, a New Jersey software programmer by the name of Saman Jayasekara pushed aside any privacy qualms, installed the device in his vehicle and would up receiving a 23% discount each month on the auto insurance he purchases from Progressive, potentially amounting to a savings of several hundred dollars each year.

    Forbes.com: News Jason Collazo 2011

  • The aide of prime minister of Pakistan called Saman with "friendly advice" that they should worry about entertaining people.

    They Rock Pakistan 2007

  • Drawing skillfully on both Indonesian slang and literary allegory, "Saman" won the prestigious Jakarta Arts Council competition for new novels and quickly went on to sell 55,000 copies -- a good run in Indonesia.

    Indonesia's Literary Ladies 2007

  • Utami, a former journalist and a Roman Catholic who cites the Bible as an early inspiration, launched the movement with her first novel, "Saman," two weeks before Suharto's fall.

    Indonesia's Literary Ladies 2007

  • It's not about 'Parazit,' it's not about Saman, it's not about Kambiz.

    The Jon Stewarts of Iran Tara Bahrampour 2011

  • At Lankatilake, I saw the Buddha surrounded on all four sides by devales (shrines) devoted to the deities Upulvan, Saman, Vibhisana, and Skanda — of mixed Hindu, Buddhist, and Persian origin.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Moises Saman has been documenting events in and around Cairo.

    Egypt protesters in standoff with military rulers - Wednesday 23 November 2011

  • Saman Zia-Zarifi, director of Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific programme, said the Gaza inquiry made sense because Israel was not an ICC signatory.

    Call for 'Gaza style' inquiry on Afghan deaths Mark Townsend 2010

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