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Artist Andy Warhol in San Francisco, CA in 1981.

***NO LAST NAMES TO BE USED IN PRINT OR IN THE VIDEO*** Reem Maher Al Khatib, 13, spends time wither her siblings in her family tent at the Al Za'atri refugee camp for Syrians, near Mafraq, Jordan on Nov. 18, 2013. Reem is a Syrian refugee suffering from mental health issues. She has been living in a tent at the Za'atri camp wither her parents, three sisters (1 older and 2 younger) and her brother (the youngest) since January 2013. While she was in Syria, Reem witnessed several armed conflicts, killing, bombing and kidnapping. Responding to the trauma by crying, yelling and hiding, she eventually stopped going to school in Syria because of the situation. Soon after, she came to the camp with her family. According to her mother, Reem presented psychological symptoms like fear, nightmares, isolation and making trouble with her sisters, with increasing frequency upon arrival at the camp. Refusing to attend school, Reem was overwhelmed by fear and insecurities. In June 2013 The CM (Eman) met Reem, at which time she shared other psychological symptoms like hearing some voices and seeing ghosts. The client was referred to MH psychiatrist whom diagnosed her as having “adjustment features.” Since that day, Reem has engaged in Psychotherapy sessions and Psychosocial activities in Youth Empowerment Program site 2. Now significant improvements have been observed. Reem has started to go to school, build a social network, and improve her family relationships, stress management, and coping skills. Spending time out of the tent and interacting with other children is an important indicator of her social developments. Reem now also spends time helping her mother and developed hobbies she likes, doing "handicrafts" and making drawings.

Steve Jobs stands in front of a print of Ansel Adams' "Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944" 1989 California, USA

A Serbian boy plays basketball in front of his bullet-ridden apartment house in Borovo Naselje, Vukovar-Syrmia county, Croatia on May 21, 2001.

Overview of Beirut in 1996, and the changes occuring since the end of Lebanon's 15-year civil war. Sun bathers at the yacht club ajoining the war-scarred Hotel Saint-Georges, symbol of Beirut's glamorous past and ground zero during the civil war.

One of the least reported cultural stories in the Middle East today involves the plight of Arab Christians—some eight million people living mostly in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq. These are the remnants of indigenous Holy Land communities dating back 2,000 years who were among the first Christians in history. Their culture is ancient, distinctive, and colorful, shaped by their remarkable ability to survive the upheavals of Middle Eastern history. Yet Arab Christians are now in danger of vanishing from the region altogether, driven out by a rising tide of religious and political extremism. Attacks on Christians are up dramatically from a decade ago, prompting a huge wave of out-migration. Besides uprooting families and communities, this trend is also having an adverse impact on the Arab world: Christians tend to be the best educated and most modernized citizens of their home lands—the progressive voices in the political arena as well as successful merchants and traders. In short, the people Arab society can least afford to lose. This story looks at the Arab Christians in the Levant; Israel, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. Aboud is a small Palestinian village of 2100 people. It used to be completely Christian, but now it is half Muslim due to loss of local Christian population from immigration out of the West Bank. The funeral of Sa'ad Yacoub Issa, 71, who died without a husband or children. The community came out to honor her passing with a traditional Greek Orthodox ceremony, which began in her home surrounded by the women of the village and ended in the old Byzantine church and then a procession to the cemetary.

A line of soldiers from the Afghan National Army, or ANA, training at the Kabul Military Training Center, near Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. troops on Operation Valiant Guardian in Afghanistan, on the hunt for Al-Queda and Taliban.

Street scene in Kano, Nigeria on March 31, 2013. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and it is also one of the world’s most important oil producers: 50% of the population lives in poverty, and in the north, where the situation is particularly dire, the number is more than 70%. Nigeria is evenly split between the primarily Muslim north and a Christian south, and although most people live in harmony, since 2009, a murky Islamic insurgent group, Boko Haram, which translates as Western Religion is Sacrilegious, has become increasingly radical and violent, targeting Nigerian security forces and churches. As tensions flair, there is a looming potential for civil war that could threaten to engulf the country and tear Nigeria apart –a disastrous outcome for all of Africa. Photographer Ed Kashi intends to make two trips to the Northeast to complete this story. This story will show how converging issues are impacting Nigeria’s growing crisis: religious strife, economic disparity, ethnicity, and a fight for resources.

Scenes from the gunfire in Tehama county in Northern California. Crews from CDF and the Dept. of Forestry work together to fight this forest fire. Shasta County, CA 1999.

Nguyen Thi Ly, 9, who suffers from Agent Orange disabilities, in her home in Ngu Hanh Son district of Da Nang, Vietnam on July 9, 2010.

***NO LAST NAMES TO BE USED IN PRINT OR IN THE VIDEO*** Scenes in the Domiz camp for Syrian refugees just outside of Dohik, Iraq on November, 23, 2013.

***NO LAST NAMES TO BE USED IN PRINT OR IN THE VIDEO*** Scenes with a refugee family of youths in an isolated enclave of tents on a farm in the middle of the desert between the Syrian and Iraqi borders in Ereinbeh, Jordan on Nov. 14, 2013. The siblings have been in Jordan since August of 2012, having fled from their hometown of Hasakeh, Syria first to Daraa in the south and then over the border to Jordan. Their parents made them leave Syria to avoid rape of the girls and conscription of the boy into the military or the Free Syrian Army. They are Muna Mesto, 16, Sumya Mesto, 15, Bilal Mesto, 14 and Lamya Mesto, 13. They left behind their parents and 4 other siblings, and now live in a tent with their paternal grandmother Khansa Mesto, who is in her 80's.