STORIES THAT NEED TO BE TOLD

Field Notes

Old Crow Women

The Old Crow (Gwitchin) women’s name is Mrs. Irene Kendell…She was married to the local methodist minister for years… She was 106 years old at the time (July,August, September 1982)…She died ...

Zo Zo

Shoklo Malaria Research Unit – Mawker Thei Clinic on the banks of the Moi River.  Zo Zo is 26 years old and was brought in my his father from a village across the river.  The plasmodium parasites have impaired ...

World Health Project

The San: The first leg of this project took me to Botswana where I lived with Nanke,  a San or Bushman women, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, for 2 months. I pitched my  tent beside her tin shack.  The Botswana ...

Shatila Field Notes

Seeing Shatila, gives me a whole new perspective on what I thought about Somalia being the most brutal war I’d seen, or Angolans the most starved, Afghans the most displaced, S. African’s the most ...

Shatila

The following are excerpts from Fieldnotes from Shatila. Last year I received an email from Dr. Eyad El Sarraj, who I had met and stayed with in Gaza, in 1996, where I did a story on posttraumatic stress syndrome ...

Eyads-israeli informer

Symptoms of trauma are defense mechanisms against unbearable circumstances and events. They are also signs that the mind is healthy. The problems start after the circumstances are over and the defense mechanisms ...