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LITERARY | Ukraine: Here’s what Ukrainians with disabilities face as we cope with war

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...

FEATURE | Ukraine: Elderly fare worst in Europe’s forgotten conflict

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...

CULTURE | Syria: Aleppo’s Metal Bands Tour Europe, but Not the Way They Hoped

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...

Bosnian war crimes investigation board, Sanski Most, Bosnia. Img: Daniel J. Gerstle.

FEATURE | Bosnia’s Quest for the Missing

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...

LITERARY | Syria: Rock in a Hard Place

December 2013 | By Daniel J Gerstle. Photos by Hazem Abdul Raouf and Haneen B Nasser | This story was originally published in Rolling Stone (Middle East), republished here with permission. | Humanitarianbazaar.org I "C'MON, SYRIA!" BASHAR HAROUN, the 28-year-old singer of heavy metal...

LITERARY | Rolling Stone: Pompi, Sharpening Iron with Iron in Zambian Hiphop

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...

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...