First, some "must reads" that will interest any visitor to the site:
- "Panaf: For a Dozen Days in 1969, Algiers was African" (Algeria, July 2019)
- "Marrying the Platypus" (September 2018)
- "Who Am I? Confessions of a Global Citizen" (December 2016)
- "'An American in Love with Algeria': The Story Behind the Allaqta Video Profile" (Algeria, August 2016)
- "Celebrating the Haik, and Debating an Algerian Icon" (Algeria, March 2014)
- "House Hunters International, Algiers: Episode 1: 'It's Worth It for the View'" (Algeria, November 2013)
- "Sylvestre's Stories" (Rwanda, June 2011)
- "Water, Water Everywhere, No Time to Stop and Think" (Morocco, October 2008)
- "Instead, They Sing" (Mozambique, August 2006)
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- "In Tindouf Refugee Camps, Resignation and Frustration Do Battle" (Algeria, February 2018)
- "Around Algiers: (Re)Navigating the Invisible City" (Algeria, January 2016)
- "The Real World: Baghdad (Life Behind the Blast Walls)" (Iraq, May 2010)
- "Swimming with the Quirimbas Current" (Mozambique, August 2006)
- "Hama Weekend, Part 2: Hospitable Friends" (Syria, August 2005)
- "To Ma'aloula and Deir Mar Musa, in Search of Spiritual Roots" (Syria, June 2005)
- "Nostalgia, Inc: Photography and Analog Defiance in the Age of Instagram" (June 2018)
- "With Help from the Rollei, Making Friends in Lamu" (Kenya, November 2013)
- "Travels With Rollei" (May 2013)
- "Rolleicord 101: Re-Learning Photography in the 21st Century" (March 2013)
- "Observing the Holy Month, from a Safe Distance" (Morocco, September 2009)
- "Joyful Welcomes, Tearful Worship: A Day of Prayer with Damascus' Muslims" (Syria, August 2005)
- "Quince: A Culinary Love Story" (Morocco, December 2008)
- "Come With Me To The Casbah" (Algeria, November 2014)
- "Lalibela: Sacred Spaces from Another World" (Ethiopia, February 2010)
- "A Castle, a Column, a Kurd: A Visit to Aleppo" (Syria, July 2005)
- "Moroccan Hoop Dreams" (Morocco, January 2009)
- "One Nub Down, 9.8 to Go, and Life Goes On" (Algeria, June 2014)
- "Mulling It Over, or: I Lost My Passport in Kombolcha" (Ethiopia, February 2010)
- "Lessons Learned from Backpacking, and More Yet to Learn" (January 2010)
- "Lessons Learned from a Banana" (Mozambique, August 2006)
- "A Glimpse of the New Rwanda" (Rwanda, November 2010)
- "Ghosts from the Past, Prayers for the Future" (Sierra Leone, September 2007)
- "There but for the Grace of God: A Lesson in Congolese Chemistry" (DR Congo, July 2004)
- "My Day at the Pool in Kigali" (Rwanda, July 2004)
- "A Second Chance for Egypt, A Third Way for the Arab World" (Egypt, July 2019)
- "Are We All Charlie Hebdo?" (January 2015)
- "9/11 and the Tenth Parallel" (USA, September 2011)
- "Gorilla Country: There Are No Creationists in Virunga" (Rwanda, June 2011)
- "Reflections from the Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater" (Tanzania, July 2006)
Updated January 2020