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FEATURE | Sudan: Time Running Out for Medical Teams in Besieged El Fasher

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...

LITERARY | Sudan: Butterflies in the Night

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,...

CULTURE | Triage & Consequences: Humanitarian Simulation Game

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...

LITERARY | Things We Ate While Responding to Famine

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...

VIDEO SERIES | Adeso Africa: Vanishing Lands

    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...

LITERARY | Somali: Thorns of the Acacia

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...

FEATURE | Indonesia: Merapi, Mountain of Fire, Lights Up Central Java

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...

LITERARY | Iraq: Conjuring Peace in the Tigris Valley

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...

LITERARY | Afghanistan: Providing Aid Safely

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...