On TIME.com/video this week. At a small town auction and in the local cafe in Kinsman township (about ten miles from where I grew up), rural Ohioans worry about the economy and ponder their choice for president. When I was a kid, I went to the Kinsman auctions with my grandparents. When I started thinking […]
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Yesterday, after finishing my presentation at the first conference for Arab Science journalists, I walked from my hotel to the old Jewish quarter of Fez, Morocco, with its Andalusian architecture and medieval casbah, or market.
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It’s been raining in Morocco since I arrived on Wednesday morning. The dark skies and heavy rains (unseasonable, I’m told, and I’m being blamed by my fixer for bringing the bad weather with me from North America), have hampered my work here. Above and below, the huge mosque in Casablanca stands steady in the mist
At the presidential debates at Hofstra University in Long Island last Wednesday, I worked alongside TIME National Political Correspondent Karen Tumulty. We roamed the press filing area and the famed Budweiser Tent — where reporters and politicos rub elbows — to produce a video segment for TIME.com. James Estrin, a great soul and a top
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Last night, while watching the debate and furiously taking notes so I could put together a three-minute version of the event for TIME.com, it occurred to me that I found the questions more compelling than the answers. Because this was a town hall style debate (though, since the campaigns had tied it up with a
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One of the students in the professional documentary courses I taught at the American University in Cairo a couple of years back is now the host of a travel show on Egypt’s OTV channel. Tariq Abd El Aziz — known to his friends as Tata — is a larger-than-life personality, which makes his appearances on
Check out TIME.com today and see what the talented team here — led by Shivani York and Sean Villafranca — has done to revamp the site. It’s a marvel to behold. The work that I do and oversee — basically anything that moves or makes noise — is now displayed on the home page, with
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For the past two weeks, I’ve been at both the Democratic convention in Denver and the Republican convention in St. Paul. I did my share of serious video reporting stuff — primers on how conventions work and how important some of the major speeches can be for the candidates and the campaigns. And I produced
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Aside from the ideological differences between the parties, there are two other facts I noticed as I roamed the floor of the Republican National Convention this evening: fewer delegates and funnier hats.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. I arrived in Minneapolis last night and drove to our hotel about 15 miles away from too far from anything. I was so exhausted I forgot my room number on the second trip with my video gear and other luggage. Then I remembered: 420. Something to do with Marijuana laws. Though I don’t