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Thanks to those who have already helped out. Our brave storytellers have sacrificed a lot, some were even wounded, and your support helps tremendously!
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December 2024 | Daniel J. Gerstle, founder / editor Humanitarian Bazaar Welcome to Humanitarian Bazaar! We're an arts community committed to promoting peace and an end to violence. We produce creative projects focused on how people survive war and disaster, including stories...
November 2024 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine Written by Eilaf Mohamed, MD, with Daniel J. Gerstle. Top image by Mohamed Zakaria, second image courtesy of Eilaf Mohamed. Eilaf Mohamed, MD, is a doctor from the Saudi Maternity Hospital, also known as the...
November 2024 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine & Untold Magazine Written by Daniel J. Gerstle with additional reporting by Mohamed Zakaria and Eilaf Mohamed | Photography by Mohamed Zakaria, Modther Ibrahim Suleman, and El Fasher hospital staff The real stories of the local Sudanese...
November 2024 | By Afrah Yousif Hussain, MD, interview essay with Danie J. Gerstle | Humanitarianbazaar.org Afrah Yousif Hussain, MD, is a maternity doctor from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, Sudan. As part of an obstetric and gynecology team,...
October 2024 | Humanitarianbazaar.org This past October 2024, I had a chance to revisit the Jewish neighborhood of Prague, Czechia, and join friends at a demonstration march for peace and an end to violence against civilians in the ongoing Israel-Arab regional...
August 2024 | Alai K Disco Vumbi Humanitarianbazaar.org We at HB had the pleasure to provide creative advice on this video created by Milan Daemgen for Alai K Disco Vumbi. Enjoy the summer in Berlin. Humanitarianbazaar.org ****************************...
June 2024 | Daniel J. Gerstle | Humanitarianbazaar.org This June 4th, 2024, while on an International Center for Journalists fellowship and in cooperation with Untold Magazine, I had the chance to attend the first war crimes trial for Sudan at the...
May 2024 | Alai K Disco Vumbi Humanitarianbazaar.org Enjoy "Feeling," a quick promo for summer vibes with Alai K Disco Vumbi! Forgive the ultra color we put on Milan's otherwise lovely visuals. We had a quick turn around. Find the track at...
March 2024 | Alai K Disco Vumbi Primary cinematography by Milan Demgen and bts takes by Daniel J. Gerstle. Humanitarianbazaar.org Here is a chance for you to join us behind the scenes on "Feeling," another music promo with Alai K Ukoo Flani...
March 2024 | Ekowmania Humanitarianbazaar.org We were glad to film the live performance by Ekowmania at YAAM in Berlin, Germany. Here we pulled together a quick promotion for their single, "Ananse," Humanitarianbazaar,org *********************** ...
March 2024 | Daniel J. Gerstle Humanitarianbazaar.org While on the International Center for Journalists Fellowship for Health Innovation Journalism, I had a chance to dive into Heidelberg University's School of Medicine, visit philosopher Karl Jasper's stomping grounds by the old...
January 2024 | Humanitarianbazaar.org After years developing Humanitarian Bazaar's War Survivors Advisory to research gaps in global civilian protection in emergencies, the International Center for Journalists awards HB founder Daniel J. Gerstle with the 2024 Health Innovation Journalism Fellowship to focus...
September 2023 | Tamana Ayazi & Marcel Mettelsiefen directed the film. HB highlights the award here. | Humanitarianbazaar.org Our hero, friend, and former producer Tamana Ayazi, who worked with Humanitarian Bazaar on several projects in Afghanistan, pulled off the miraculous feat of...
August 2023 | Alai K Disco Vumbi Video by Daniel J. Gerstle for HB | Humanitarianbazaar.org YAAM has stood out for over a decade as Berlin's preeminent venue for African and Afro-European artists, among others. Beyond the bold stages both indoor and out,...
August 2023 | Mic Lon | Humanitarianbazaar.org When Tanzanian rapper Mic Lon visited Berlin, Alai K Disco Vumbi brought him to his studio. For a quick demo rap video, they called Humanitarian Bazaar. Daniel provided video. The talent was all Mic Lon. Humanitarianbazaar.org *********************** ...
July 2023 | Alai K disco Vumbi | Humanitarianbazaar.org The Dürchluften Festival, "Open Air Festival," at Berlin's historic Humboldt Forum gives people a chance to dance to a wide variety of global artists outdoor in the courtyard while touring a colossal...
July 2023 | Alai K Disco Vumbi Camera team Daniel J. Gerstle & Canberk Karaoglanoglu Humanitarianbazaar.org With great joy, we filmed the performance by Ukoo Flani alum, DJ Alai K Disco Vumbi at the prestigious House of World Culture in Berlin, Germany. As...
May 2023 | Humanitarianbazaar.org With great pride and relief, singer Felis Abdi, rapper Shiine Akhyaar, and I (Daniel) can now share with you that after an epic twelve year journey, we now have a full 110 minute rough cut of our...
October 2022 | Abbas Mohammad Ayyoubi ft. Yalda Safai & Marzia Hashemi Humanitarianbazaar.org We were proud to host filmmaker Abbas Mohammad Ayyoubi presenting first screening of his film, Parvana (Butterfly), for cast and crew in Berlin. The stars Marzia Hashemi, Yalda Safai,...
April 2022 | Olha Telna; this story was originally produced by Olha Telna and Daniel J. Gerstle for The New Humanitarian Olha Telna | Associate professor at Kharkiv Academy for Humanitarian and Pedagogical studies, disability rights activist, and a member of...
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May 2020 | Wizzy | Photography by Daniel J. Gerstle Humanitarianbazaar.org We had a chance to go behind the scenes on the new music video for "Light of My Eyes," by Wizzy, filmed at the historic SO36 club and Berlin's Museum Island....
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February 2018 | Humanitarianbazaar.org We were proud to present Humanitarian Bazaar's War Survivors Advisory project at the Meet & Pitch event at The Factory in Berlin this week. While I was nervous presenting such heavy content to an audience used to...
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December 2016 | Written and photographed by Daniel J. Gerstle for The New Humanitarian “A bullet flew in right here,” explains Nadyezhda Semyonovna, 65, to her local pastor, Yura, in the dining room of her home near Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine. “I was...
December 2015 | Archive | DANIEL J. GERSTLE Originally published in Middle East Eye Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine Syrian heavy metal singer Adel Saflou asked to meet at the maximum security prison in Alphen-aan-den-Rijn, Netherlands, where he was writing his new album. Bearded and...
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November 2011 | Culture | Marwan Samarae, with Daniel J. Gerstle Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine DANIEL: We want to hear Acrassicauda's new album Gilgamesh!!! When does it come out? How are the songs different from your previous stuff? Will I love it so much...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] November 2014 | Music by White City. Video by Ru Owen and Jake Simkin. Reposted from our archive, first posted in 2013 | Humanitarianbazaar.org We take a look now at a music video filmed...
September 2014 | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle; film and imagery by Monzer Darwish | Humanitarianbazaar.org There have been hundreds of filmmakers risking their lives to document the Syrian war and how people survive. But there has only been one capable of...
August 2014 | District Unknown | Humanitarianbazaar.org When Afghanistan's first heavy metal band District Unknown [FOLLOW HERE] first performed in Kabul despite threats, they had their eyes on this moment. Today they release "The Anatomy of a 24-Hour Lifetime," their first album, Afghanistan's...
August 2014 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine | Story by Daniel J Gerstle. Photos by Daniel J Gerstle, Jake Simkin, Seth Chase, Ahmad Mahmoud, Hajooj Kuka, A.A., Nur Hassan, and many more captioned. Last year Somalia hiphop peace activist group Waayaha Cusub...
August 2014 | Culture | Short video produced for Bosnia FIFA, directed by Renzo Vazquez, produced by RPP Sao Paolo with Humanitarian Bazaar in Sarajevo, Bosnia Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine In summer 2014, as Bosnia's national football team advanced in the World Cup...
December 2013 | Humanitarian Bazaar ft. Waayaha Cusub After running the successful Mogadishu Music Festival, Somali hip hop group Waayaha Cusub, supported by Humanitarian Bazaar and donors, ran the Journey of Peace Festival in the Dadaab refugee settlements in Kenya. Five...
December 2013 | Written and photographed by Daniel J. Gerstle Special thanks to the International Center for Missing Persons, Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Jasmin Agović and Hikmet Karčić. Humanitarianbazaar.org There is a thick brown box in my closet back...
November 2013 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine | A Humanitarian Bazaar original brought forward from our HELO Magazine archive. The game was created by our team for trainings at Columbia University in New York in 2011. CULTURE | Triage & Consequences: Humanitarian...
July 2013 | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle | Humanitarianbazaar.org Pompi, the Zambian hip-hop performer known for his gospel-inspired lyrics, beaming smile, and bow tie, takes the stage for the first time in Washington, D.C., offering a lyrical poem about being...
July 2013 | Waayaha Cusub ft. Humanitarian Bazaar On July 1st, 2013, as part of the Somali Sunrise Concert Tour for Peace, hip hop group, Waayaha Cusub, performed at the Somali Independence Day festival concert in Eastleigh, Kenya. Many performers and...
April 2013 | Humanitarian Bazaar ft. Waayaha Cusub, Kombo Chokwe & Afro simba, Alsarah, Ariana Delawari Band, Jahm Eye, Bill Brookman, and more Humanitarian Bazaar On April 27th, 2013, Somali hiphop group Waayaha Cusub and Humanitarian Bazaar launched the historic Mogadishu Music...
April 3rd, 2013 | Waayaha Cusub, Kombo Chokwe & Afro Simba, and more Humanitarian Bazaar Humanitarian Bazaar's work with front line musicians for youth outreach eventually crossed over with counter-violence and counter-extremism work. With Somali hip hop group Waayaha Cusub, the...
December 2012 | Culture | Waayaha Cusub & Humanitarian Bazaar Humanitarian Bazaar In December 2012, Kwani Trust hosted it's annual Kwani Litfest featuring celebrated poets Hadraawi (Somalia) and Warsan Shire (Somali-UK) in Nairobi and Eastleigh, Kenya. The literary festival included several live...
Autumn 2012 | Culture | Waayaha Cusub Humanitarian Bazaar From October to December 2012, Somali hip hop group Waayaha Cusub launched a new round of concerts shaped for outreach to rally youth to turn away from violent extremism in Eastleigh, Kenya. As...
September 2012 | Archive | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine When Ghani first piloted the Landcruiser off the Bosaso-Mogadishu Highway tarmac into the rocky desert where there were no roads, no people, I thought he might kill me. That summer...
August 2012 | Culture | Waayaha Cusub Humanitarian Bazaar The Somali Sunrise Concert Tour for Peace, led by Somali hiphop group Waayaha Cusub and produced by Humanitarian Bazaar, was Waayaha Cusub's world tour campaign to persuade youth to turn away from extremism...
BRAZIL | Michelle N Warner, HELO Magazine, Jan – Feb 2011 Though it’s used in foods as ubiquitous as class yellow cheddar cheese, you’ve probably never heard of the achiote plant and its versatile seed, annatto. That classic orangey-yellow color that people...
SOMALIA & KENYA | DANIEL J. GERSTLE | MAY 2012 Originally published in Rolling Stone (Middle East edition) Republished here November 2024 Shiine Akhyaar, the outspoken lead singer and manager of Somali hip-hop collective Waayaha Cusub, loves to share his political opinions, but...
April 2012 | Humanitarianbazaar.org In November 2011, Adeso Africa contracted Humanitarian Bazaar (then known as HELO Media) and Drewstone Media to travel with their team to remote areas of Somalia, Kenya, and South Sudan to produce three short documentaries and photo...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
WHITE CITY: BIG IN THE STANS Filmmaker & Singer/Bassist Ru Owen directed, produced, and filmed this series about life on tour from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan while performing with rock band White City. The trio--Ru Owen (vocals/ bass), Travis Beard (guitar), and...
MC Leonardo in the offices of APAFUNK, in downtown Rio de Janeiro. November 2024 / January 2011 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine Written by Samantha Barthelemy, photos by Guilherme Lessa Originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2011. “Funk still hasn’t happened. When...
December 2011 | Humanitarianbazaar.org As our sedan soared across the desert just north of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, back on my first journey there in 2004, my new acquaintance who was driving, Karim, and I could see golden sand dunes consume the road...
December 2011 | Culture | Daniel J. Gerstle, images by David Gill Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine, originally published in Rolling Stone: Middle East; reprinted with permission. We’re cutting through the black, dusty night searching for a rock party in a secret underground bunker...
DECEMBER 2010 | LITERARY | LEBANON | MICHELLE CHAHINE Truck bombs. Explosions. A popular Prime Minister and a dozen young, anti-Syrian politicians and journalists assassinated. A million Lebanese took to the streets of Beirut in response, ushering the withdrawal of Syrian forces...
Josh Neufeld, Comix New Orleans A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge Journey | Josh Neufeld, Oct-Nov 2009 An Excerpt from the Nonfiction Novel, buy it and see other works at www.JoshComix.com. In A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, the new comix journalism novel by...
May 2011 | Archive | Carl Wilkens, interviewed by Daniel J. Gerstle, edited by Sue Rissberger Image: MONUC peacekeepers secure an area. Marie Frechon | United Nations Photo. Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (formerly HELO) HELO just caught up with the unstoppable Carl Wilkens as...
November 2011 | Humanitarianbazaar.org As the crew of HELO continues to polish a new battery of stories to start the new season, here's another meaty blast from the recent past. We strongly encourage any of you to contribute to this story,...
November 2024 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine Story be Black Nature, with Daniel J. Gerstle. Image by DJG. This story was originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (aka HELO) in 2011. Chill out for a moment, get comfortable, and listen to this seductive...
October 2011 | Culture | An HB collaborative short video Humanitarian Bazaar in cooperation with Combat Comms and Sound Central Festival In fall 2011, Afghanistan's first four rock bands--Morcha, Kabul Dreams, District Unknown, and White Page, together with Travis Beard and his...
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text] When Combat Comms and four rock bands of Afghanistan--Morcha, Kabul Dreams, District Unknown, and White Page--rallied to create the Sound Central Festival in Kabul in 2011, Humanitarian Bazaar (then under...
[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_empty_space image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text] AFGHAN ROCK BUNKER, NEW YORK [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In 2011, when Afghanistan's first rock bands--Morcha, Kabul Dreams, District Unknown, and White Page--joined forces with Combat Comms and band White City to produce the...
July 2011 | By Nanzia Rhona-Mgaba At the 2011 Saint-Louis Jazz festival this June in Senegal, West Africa, I discovered an array of eclectic music fusions. Contemporary jazz integrated with ethnic and traditional West African sounds. The classical piano is played...
June 2011 | Daniel J. Gerstle Please note: As it relates to the story, until the 2000s, many Bosnians, Serbians, and Montenegrins who were Muslim or with Muslim family self-identified simply as "Musliman," as the term Bosniak was still contensious, especially...
May 2011 | Travis Reiser We at Humanitarian Bazaar want to send our enthusiastic congrats and God's speed out to our friends graduating from professional schools and colleges, many of whom are departing soon to serve as crisis responders overseas! What...
May 2011 | Travka, Ru, and Andronik Interview by Daniel J. Gerstle, edited by Sue Rissberger Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO back in the old days) We caught up with Travka, Ru, and Andreas of the Kabul-based rock band, White City, this...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" video="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] MARCH 2011 | Tim Hetherington, with Hilaire Avril Film by Tim Hetherington with editing and sound by Magali Charrier. A Humanitarian Bazaar original interviewbrought forward from the HELO Magazine archive first published...
March 2011 | ARCHIVE | HB staff Image: U.S. Navy personnel rush pallets of aid to helicopters responding to the tsunami in Japan. Official U.S. Navy Imagery, CC. Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine If the 2011 tsunami in Japan and the rapid political transformation of...
March 2011 | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle Originally published under the title "Five Bombers" in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2011. Rocketing across the orange gravel desert of the African Horn region of Somaliland, my human rights advocate friends and...
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2011 AT 07:52PM WITNESS | Stephan Said, directed by Matt Kohn, HELO Magazine, January - February 2011 As largely peaceful democratic movements take on repressive governments across the Middle East and North Africa, singer-activist and 'troubadour of the Altermondialist'...
January 2011 | Henry Rollings, interviewed by Daniel J. Gerstle Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (known then as HELO Magazine) Henry Rollins, best known for his role as the singer of American punk bands, Black Flag and the Henry Rollins Group, has long been...
December 2010 | Humanitarian Bazaar Film by Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Media) in cooperation with Oxfam International and Drewstone Productions; it was released as the behind-the-scenes vignette on the DVD for Shooting Poverty at The Frontline Club. In 2010, Oxfam International and...
INDONESIA | Photography by Lindsay Stark; story by Sue Rissberger | Republished November 2024 Originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2010. Mt. Merapi, or “Mountain of Fire” in Bahasa Indonesian, is by no means an unfamiliar name in Southeast...
November 2024 / November 2010 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine Singer Alsarah of the Nubatones in New York. Photo by Michael Marquand. When Sudanese-American singer Alsarah, of the African soul band, The Nubatones, joined HELO for a video interview about her music (Coming soon!), she first offered...
OCTOBER 2010 | TASTES | AFGHANISTAN | TRAVIS REISER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010 AT 06:50PM | Central Asian dumplings: aushuk (left), mantu (top), sambosi (right). By Jypsygen, Flickr CC. That first meal one might have on the road in Afghanistan is a...
October 2010 | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle Republished November 2024. Originally, published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2011. Ibragim, the fortyish, balding engineer with gold-capped teeth, raised his glass of arakh and hummed an intricate pentatonic scale ballad which...
September 2010 | Daniel J. Gerstle Originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2010. All names of Iraqi peace activists and workers have been changed for their security. When necessary, a character may be portrayed as a composite or noted...
June 2010 | Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, and Sxip Shirey Interviewed by Lachi, produced by Daniel J. Gerstle. Special Thanks to Yula Be'eri. Humanitarianbazaar.org There is a rapidly widening footpath between the worlds of punk music culture and youth in countries facing oppression, but...
June 2010 | Archive | Written by Daniel J. Gerste, originally under a pseudonym Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) "We’re making progress with community leaders,” Abdullah told me over a popping and hissing fire in his Kabul office last month. He is...
Afghanistan | Abdullah Kunari (a pseudonym), image by Daniel J. Gerstle | Republished November 2024. Originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2010. Let me write here the important challenges which our team faced while working with an international...
May 2010 | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle Photo also by Daniel J. Gerstle; a similar accident nearby which happened two years later. Republished November 2024. Originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2010. Dhegjar lost the top of his...
Tastes | Travis Reiser, Dec-Feb 2010 Georgia is an incredibly diverse country so it is only fitting that it has an imaginative collection of local culinary specialties. “Georgia” includes the high mountains of Tusheti (see our cover photo), Kazbegi, Tskhinvali, Swanetia,...
March 2010 | Written by Travis Reiser; photo by Daniel J. Gerstle | Humanitarianbazaar.org If Iraqi, Chadian, or Australian friends brought a camel to dinner, would you slaughter and roast it? How would you prepare such a beast? What garnish? Or...
March 2010 | Archive | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle Photo by Daniel J. Gerstle while on mission with IMC in Chechnya in 2006. Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) The wake-up is the easy part. You’re groggy and full of hunger but alive...
Bosnia | Daniel J. Gerstle | November 2009 Republished November 2024 Welcome back! This story was published in our original first issue of Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO Magazine) in November 2009. (Bosnian war crimes investigation board, Sanski Most, Bosnia. Image:...
Iraq | Daniel J. Gerstle | November 2009 Republished November 2024 Welcome back! This story was published in our original first issue of Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO Magazine) in November 2009. The story was originally published under a pseudonym. Mr. Araz...
Sudan | Daniel J. Gerstle | November 2009 Republished November 2024 This story was originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO Magazine) in the second issue in November 2009. | Author's note: "A Somali minivan driver who took me to the...
Global | Daniel J. Gerstle | August 2009 Republished November 2024 Welcome back! This story was published in our original first issue of Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO Magazine) in August 2009. (Hours away from the road, Sanaag, Somalia. Img: Daniel...
August 2009 | Ana Djapović-Scholl | Img: Belgrade 2001 / CC Humanitarianbazaar.org When the International Aid Network got started in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1997-8, there were twelve of us. The agency found its specialty in providing psychological support services. Since I was...
D.R. Congo | Nate Miller | August 2009 Republished November 2024 Welcome back! This story was published in our original first issue of Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO Magazine) in August 2009. Africa can be bad for your life expectancy. Most dangers...