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If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public: Prostitution in Morocco
In 2010, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University awarded the twentieth Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann to produce their...
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Are You In This Picture?
From rallies and revolutions to weddings and celebrations, TIME has photographed all the big news events of the year. Now we want to know if we photographed you. We’re asking readers to head over to a...
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Insha’Allah: Morocco’s Changing Culture
We reached a vast field just beyond Casablanca’s limit. Dusty trails wandered toward the center, where they crisscrossed then extended further outward toward mosques, half made tenement blocks and...
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Egypt’s “Second” Revolution: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
On November 19, thousands of Egyptians took to Tahrir Square once again in what many called a “second” revolution—or even the “real” revolution. Within a week, the protest had spread to cities across...
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Yuri Kozyrev: My Year On Revolution Road
In 2011, Yuri Kozyrev traveled to seven countries covering protests and uprisings for TIME, including Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Russia, Greece and Tunisia. Here, he writes about the remarkable...
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TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2011
Sometimes words just aren’t enough. We realize that’s a bold statement for a news magazine to make. After all, words are our currency. Yet we know that there are times when, to fully tell the stories...
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The New Islamists: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
Last month TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I went to Rabat and Casablanca to report on a story about the rise of Political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring. As with Tunisia and...
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Celebrating the Brotherhood’s Victory: A New President is Elected in Egypt
It’s been a restless month for politics in Egypt, where longtime president Hosni Mubarak was ousted from office during the Arab Spring last February. On June 14, just days before the country’s first...
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A Mural in Cairo: The Backdrop Of A Revolution
A huge, colorful mural of the men Egyptian youth activists know as “felool”—regime remnants—adorns a building’s wall on Mohamed Mahmoud Street in downtown Cairo. Branching off of the now iconic Tahrir...
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After the Spring: Women of the Arab Revolution
A year after they both captured the global imagination, the revolutions in Egypt and Libya are now poised on a knife-edge. The sense of hope that followed the departures of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and...
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Rémi Ochlik’s Revolutions
“War is worse than drugs. One moment it’s a bad trip, a nightmare. But the next moment, as soon as the immediate danger has passed, there is an overpowering desire to go back for more. To risk one’s...
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Photographing the Clashes in Cairo
Last week, as protests once again raged in the streets of Cairo, Magnum photographer Moises Saman was there. Over three days, he documented the ongoing street battles near his residence in the Garden...
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TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2012
If 2011 was a year of simple, powerful narratives — of revolution and sweeping change — 2012 was when things got a lot more complicated. The aftermath of the Arab Spring’s upheavals saw uneasy...
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Supporting Photographers, Moving Walls
On Wednesday, the Open Society Foundations will mark their 20th group exhibition of “Moving Walls” at their new location in midtown Manhattan. Initially conceived 15 years ago as a way to highlight the...
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Continuing Chaos in Tahrir Square: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
The story of Egypt is the story of crowds. Until January 2011, its politics were the sterile, servile sort enforced by one-party states. But Tahrir Square changed that, and public affairs have refused...
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Joseph Sywenkyj Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant
American photographer Joseph Sywenkyj has won the the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his work documenting the lives of people affected by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. In...
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Egyptian President Sisi Pardons Political Prisoners—Including Jailed Journalists
CAIRO—Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi issued a raft of pardons of political prisoners on Wednesday, including journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, who were jailed more than a year ago...
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Why the Arab Spring Has Not Led to Disaster in Tunisia
Five years ago, on December 17, 2010, a street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest after a police officer seized his cart and produce. It was an act that encapsulated the...
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Why the Pentagon Can’t Work Like a Business
1. Here’s what happens when you try to run the Pentagon like a business. (It isn’t good.) By Bryan Bender in Politico 2. How to fix living organ donation. By Josh Morrison in the Washington Post 3. The...
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A Climate of Fear Intensifies in Egypt Before the Arab Spring Anniversary
In recent weeks, Egyptian authorities have searched apartments across Cairo, arrested a medical doctor in a nighttime raid, seized activists sitting in a cafe, raided a publishing house and closed an...
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