The Princess Bride cast 25 years later…
Lebanon: Healing Those Deeply Affected
Recently, with thousands of Syrians—many of whom have physical wounds—fleeing the violence in their country and seeking refuge in Lebanon, we dispatched medical teams to evaluate their health status. This resulted in our setting up a new health program in Wadi Khaled, in the north of Lebanon, in November 2011. We have been working in Lebanon for three years, and were therefore in a position to closely monitor the health situation for Syrians arriving in the country.
Read more about the work of MSF in Northern Lebanon here.
Photo: Lebanon 2010 © Dina Debbas
This week, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about the controversy surrounding the fuel-extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the United States. A recent project by the photographer Nina Berman documents the fracking industry in Pennsylvania, and how the rapid increase in drilling has impacted rural life in the region—the state has seen sixteen hundred new fracking sites in the past year alone.
- On our Photo Booth blog, Berman shares a selection of her photographs, and discusses the difficulty of documenting the impact of a technology that works largely underground: http://nyr.kr/uISHlp
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In 1969, 27-year-old Capt. Muammar Gaddafi overthrew the king of Libya in a bloodless coup, promoted himself to Colonel, and declared the country a socialist state. Ever since, he’s remained one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and a man of profound contradictions. He describes Libya as a popular democracy, but his word is law. He has sponsored terrorists and violent revolutionaries, but has frequently acknowledged his actions while avidly courting Western approval.
see more — Gaddafi: The Last Supervillain?
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