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LITERARY | Bosnia and the Value of White Lies

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...

TASTES | Caucasus: Feasting & Storytelling Across the Caucasus

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...

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...

LITERARY | Afghanistan: Bringing the Road to Dareh Ziba

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...

LITERARY | Somalia: War Scars

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...

LITERARY | Russia: Music for the Road

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...

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

LITERARY | Bosnia: Motivations of a Killer

  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:...

Peshmerga soldiers in Erbil. Image: Daniel J. Gerstle.

LITERARY | Iraq: Halabja’s Public Health Nightmare

  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...