casbahs

This, in conjunction with all the signage and graffiti, reminded me of the abundant demands for "karama" and calls for "tharwa" paraded across city squares, casbahs, and on the lips of protesters, ones that were visibly heard, seen and felt during my trip -- and consequently gave me more pause.

Maytha Alhassen: Please Reconsider the Term "Arab Spring" Maytha Alhassen 2012

This, in conjunction with all the signage and graffiti, reminded me of the abundant demands for "karama" and calls for "tharwa" paraded across city squares, casbahs, and on the lips of protesters, ones that were visibly heard, seen and felt during my trip -- and consequently gave me more pause.

Maytha Alhassen: Please Reconsider the Term "Arab Spring" Maytha Alhassen 2012

The casbahs of Nablus, once the cynosure for the second intifada, are busier than ever, and one can even mark the improved quality of life by the criminal indicators: This year Nablus saw its first arrest for drunken driving.

Taylor Marsh: Salam Fayyad, Out of the Ashes of Arafat 2010

The casbahs of Nablus, once the cynosure for the second intifada, are busier than ever, and one can even mark the improved quality of life by the criminal indicators: This year Nablus saw its first arrest for drunken driving.

Taylor Marsh: Salam Fayyad, Out of the Ashes of Arafat 2010

“Now that Jackie and her children have taken possession of their new home on N Street,” read a Washington Post editorial, “the once quaint and quiet district of Georgetown has begun to resemble one of the many hurly-burly casbahs of Morocco.”

Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

“Now that Jackie and her children have taken possession of their new home on N Street,” read a Washington Post editorial, “the once quaint and quiet district of Georgetown has begun to resemble one of the many hurly-burly casbahs of Morocco.”

Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

“Now that Jackie and her children have taken possession of their new home on N Street,” read a Washington Post editorial, “the once quaint and quiet district of Georgetown has begun to resemble one of the many hurly-burly casbahs of Morocco.”

Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009

The week that began with Johnson's abdication ended with Martin Luther King lying dead in Memphis and with the black casbahs of 130 cities in flames.

The Year It All Fell Apart 2008

The oases of the deep south, with their towering casbahs, groves of palms, and fi elds of feathery alfalfa, stand amid Saharan wastes where the temperature can reach 120 degrees.

Going Coastal 2006

The oases of the deep south, with their towering casbahs, groves of palms, and fi elds of feathery alfalfa, stand amid Saharan wastes where the temperature can reach 120 degrees.

Going Coastal 2006