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Annan was at Stanford for the opening of the Center for Food Security Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731237715-EJWPR5P7JDXSDXYZW25Z/bushra_news-1.jpg News Portfolio Former UN Secreteary General Kofi Annan looks down on his smaller counterpart. Annan was at Stanford for the opening of the Center for Food Security Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731237715-3Q5WK6WRVDTSK99949QT/bushra_news-2.jpg News Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731246066-G2EY1YK8A4GB8A3V815L/bushra_news-3.jpg News Portfolio Former President Bill Clinton closes out the Clinton Global Initiative's third and final day on Sept. 24, 2012 in New York City by introducing a woman he met while touring the Chinese countryside as president, and who is now a prominent advocate for disabled people's rights in her country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731246064-B38UZCG2E72O0RM09BIM/bushra_news-4.jpg News Portfolio - Bernies Sanders campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomina Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731745912-FD2MF9GWXJ40Y2CM71WE/bushra_news-5.jpg News Portfolio A 9/11 "Truther" sits with his materials near the site of an event commemorating the 11th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2012 in downtown New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731738798-AU2OUWY78S3WTQQHEBEL/bushra_news-6.jpg News Portfolio - Bernies Sanders campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomina A diverse audience of activists and potential voters listens to Bernie Sanders answer a question at the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731766126-1AQ6OUZKTDRSPWBVBC4Z/bushra_news-7.jpg News Portfolio A servicewoman waits for the bus after work at the United States Southern Command headquarters in Miami, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731763487-1OOL3H5KYPMJBHOM598O/bushra_news-8.jpg News Portfolio - Comfort in Family A couple comforts one another while a young child sleeps next to them on Oct. 29th, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731787378-CRH3O72XYSXA9LXAKB0K/bushra_news-9.jpg News Portfolio Pastor Michael Severe shows a recent photograph of his relative Tyrone Walker, Jr. Another relative, Joel Michel, is in the background at right. Annette Anderson, 70, and her grandson Tyrone Walker, Jr., 20, were found bound and shot Tuesday, July 16 in Anderson's Miami Gardens home in what police are treating as a double homicide. Shadi Bushra/MIAMI HERALD STAFF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731790889-DD0M2LIZPH2KVL8TTHCP/bushra_news-10.jpg News Portfolio Gladeview, Miami - June 15, 2013 - Police spokesman Lt. John Jenkins at the site of a police-related shooting at 3201 NW 68th St, Gladeview, Miami. Two officers responding to a domestic abuse call early Saturday morning ended with one of the officers shooting and killing the suspect. Shadi Bushra/ MIAMI HERALD STAFF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731814151-HVAL375NUGQNACSHWX3G/bushra_news-11.jpg News Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731814174-47V9P899H6NRUKFL3PHV/bushra_news-12.jpg News Portfolio A family stops to watch a man who was threatening to jump from a crane atop a building in SoHo, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731831412-RWHDUY9PVEBWWZ590B1G/bushra_news-13.jpg News Portfolio The mask of King Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum on Saturday January 24, 2014 in Cairo, Egypt. The museum admitted on Saturday that workers had accidentally unattached the beard of one of Egypt's most treasured artifacts and then tried to reattach it using epoxy glue in August 2014. The museum did not acknowledge the incident until photographs showing a ring of glue around the boy king's beard began to circulate this week. The incident has brought into question whether Egypt can take care of its many priceless artifacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731833050-7NQLPDMETH7I5KCZP3OT/bushra_news-14.jpg News Portfolio British-Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims pose for a portrait at the mosque attended by now-Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during his decades living in Britain. Abadi was chosen earlier this summer to succeed Nuri al-Maliki as Iraqi PM after Islamic State captured swathes of western Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731842829-7PX0CTH81YWI8SBR8T8P/bushra_news-15.jpg News Portfolio A man grabs his throat while convulsing from spiritual fervor as he nears Sayeda Zainab's shrine in her mosque in Cairo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731847427-37BGWUVM16Z52JTQEHYJ/bushra_news-16.jpg News Portfolio London Mayor Boris Johnson (center) walks down the steps of the Crystal Palace with a businessman from a Chinese company seeking to invest in the historical British landmark. http://shadibushra.com/sudan-vote daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731899823-M3E3WGXWPYHKOOEBMEMK/bushra_sudanvote-1.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes - (Some of) Sudan Votes In April of 2015, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir moved to extend his quarter-century of rule by holding presidential and parliamentary elections even after a broad opposition boycott left no doubt as to the polls' legitimacy. The boycott was coupled with widespread apathy from voters, leading to a historically low turnout and prompting authorities to extend voting by an extra day in the hope of boosting the turnout. While many voters didn't even know where to vote, if they'd wanted to, those few that made it to polls made clear that Bashir remained their preferred choice even after a tumultuous 25 years in power that have included the imposition of Western sanctions, the genocide in Darfur, the loss of one-third of the country and most of its oil revenues, a resulting economic freefall, and Sudan's general estrangement from the international community. Despite all of these setbacks, voters looked nearby to Libya, Syria and Yemen and decided they simply could not risk changing leaders at this point, lest the country fall into the same chaos. Hammering home the unusual influence of regional politics on voters' decisions, Bashir announced just before the elections that it would support a Saudi-led military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Khartoum's unexpected turn against Iran, which in recent years had been a close regional ally, was interpreted as a move to extract aid and investment from the wealthy Gulf states who saw Iran as their primary adversary. As if to emphasize to voters that Bashir was moving to pull Sudan out of its regional isolation and economic tailspin, the Saudi ambassador in Khartoum said during the middle of polling that his country would be making "huge" investments in Sudan's agriculture sector. Sudan and Saudi Arabia denied the support for the Yemen campaign had anything to do with economic assistance. Months after the elections were over and Bashir declared the winner with over 94 percent of the vote, a Sudanese official said that Saudi Arabia had deposited $1 billion in the Sudanese central bank over the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731899823-M3E3WGXWPYHKOOEBMEMK/bushra_sudanvote-1.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes - (Some of) Sudan Votes In April of 2015, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir moved to extend his quarter-century of rule by holding presidential and parliamentary elections even after a broad opposition boycott left no doubt as to the polls' legitimacy. The boycott was coupled with widespread apathy from voters, leading to a historically low turnout and prompting authorities to extend voting by an extra day in the hope of boosting the turnout. While many voters didn't even know where to vote, if they'd wanted to, those few that made it to polls made clear that Bashir remained their preferred choice even after a tumultuous 25 years in power that have included the imposition of Western sanctions, the genocide in Darfur, the loss of one-third of the country and most of its oil revenues, a resulting economic freefall, and Sudan's general estrangement from the international community. Despite all of these setbacks, voters looked nearby to Libya, Syria and Yemen and decided they simply could not risk changing leaders at this point, lest the country fall into the same chaos. Hammering home the unusual influence of regional politics on voters' decisions, Bashir announced just before the elections that it would support a Saudi-led military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Khartoum's unexpected turn against Iran, which in recent years had been a close regional ally, was interpreted as a move to extract aid and investment from the wealthy Gulf states who saw Iran as their primary adversary. As if to emphasize to voters that Bashir was moving to pull Sudan out of its regional isolation and economic tailspin, the Saudi ambassador in Khartoum said during the middle of polling that his country would be making "huge" investments in Sudan's agriculture sector. Sudan and Saudi Arabia denied the support for the Yemen campaign had anything to do with economic assistance. Months after the elections were over and Bashir declared the winner with over 94 percent of the vote, a Sudanese official said that Saudi Arabia had deposited $1 billion in the Sudanese central bank over the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731892238-VQ81D1ZEKZKDACSLJ9G0/bushra_sudanvote-2.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir after voting in presidential and parliamentary polls, in Khartoum. He extended his quarter-century of rule with 94 percent of the vote, authorities said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731903643-W8NDIYL9M6IEQSPMUY60/bushra_sudanvote-3.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Abdelaziz al-Hassan, who says he will vote to extend the 25-year rule of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress Party in national elections. "I always stand with the strong. The rest of them you haven't even seen their faces or their names before. Why vote for someone new and weak when this government is going to fix relations with Saudi, bring some Gulf money in. Last time we stood against the Saudis when we supported Iraq (in the first Gulf war), nothing came of it. This time in Yemen we know to be on the side of the strong." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731912845-T4OT6YCNS055S0XKI6RR/bushra_sudanvote-4.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes A woman walks into a school to vote during Sudan's elections, which saw low turnout amid an opposition boycott and widespread political apathy, driven by a sense among voters that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in power since 1989, won with over 94 percent of the vote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731919182-N8E9QWOPEAENGPA8K2PF/bushra_sudanvote-5.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Farouk Abu Issa, one of two prominent Sudanese opposition leaders freed without explanation days before national elections, at his home with family and supporters in Khartoum, Sudan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731929766-EG7KO9BBCHTCEOSGKWL1/bushra_sudanvote-6.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Police and elections officials at a school being used as a polling station in Khartoum, Sudan, April 13, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731936825-ERXERQ5LSKVSDQM2NPQV/bushra_sudanvote-7.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Voters look for their voting information at a polling station in Khartoum, as two officials with the opposition Democratic Unionist Party, one of a handful of opposition parties taking place in the largely boycotted elections, walk in to monitor the voting. "President Bashir is going to win despite the fact that many people who do not agree with him. He is the only candidate who has an opportunity to win," Sami Abdullah, in white, said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731955824-D8GSX2X0DF38TRYRZBKE/bushra_sudanvote-8.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes A tent, provided by the ruling National Congress Party, where voters could eat, drink and rest, outside of a polling station in Khartoum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731964273-WY6GGYWPHFHD5CQ47Y3R/bushra_sudanvote-9.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes An Umma Party member breaks down as he recalls a conversation with activist Sandra Farouk Kadouda on April 12, the night she disappeared in what family and friends say was an abduction by state security services. The government denied any role in her disappearance. She was found badly beaten on April 15. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731989437-VUWSCJAVSIFVOWC6POAL/bushra_sudanvote-10.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes The Saudi ambassador speaks to Sudanese journalists at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, April, 14, 2015, during national elections where regional politics played a disproportionate role. The popularity of President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress party was boosted by expectations of Gulf economic aid following Khartoum's pledge of support to the Saudi-led military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. "There will be new investments in the agriculture sector, and they will be huge investments. We hope Sudan will be ready for this," Ambassador Faisal bin Hamed al-Mualla told journalists on the second day of the April polls. Riyadh and Khartoum both deny any financial support is linked to the Yemen campaign. Sudan's central bank received $1 billion in July and August from Saudi Arabia, Khartoum later said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731996838-EMSQJ02URYDNUKCKJZ7D/bushra_sudanvote-11.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes A woman casts her ballot while an elections worker helps an old man vote, at a school being used as a polling station in Khartoum, hours before the close of national polls, which authorities extended by a day after low turnout on the initial three days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733842789-M5253CFBHMVQCV5P196V/bushra_sudanvote-12.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Elections workers move boxes full of cast ballots after the close of national polls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733839961-6JDCA4LZT94QJ8NVF8WQ/bushra_sudanvote-13.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Elections workers seal and mark the boxes of ballots after the close of polling in Sudan's presidential and parliamentary elections http://shadibushra.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2016-12-19 http://shadibushra.com/life daily 0.75 2016-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731555595-YB9ELUHC6C4UBP12BISJ/bushra_life-1.jpg Daily Life Portfolio A semi truck parts the clouds on Highway 5 from LA to San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731555595-YB9ELUHC6C4UBP12BISJ/bushra_life-1.jpg Daily Life Portfolio A semi truck parts the clouds on Highway 5 from LA to San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731560956-8FMU68328E9KRSHLYEW6/bushra_life-2.jpg Daily Life Portfolio - Children walk down the street in Juba Children walk down the street in Juba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731566530-059G478LYEC2P8AEP2D1/bushra_life-3.jpg Daily Life Portfolio - A welder gets to work while his dog keeps watch in Bo Kaap, Cape A welder gets to work while his dog keeps watch in Bo Kaap, Cape Town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731578620-5A8U2V88Z03WHKPOYU6O/bushra_life-4.jpg Daily Life Portfolio - Iceland killer whale pod Orca swim off the coast of Iceland, a relatively rare sighting during the winter months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731596444-Y40Q5MSFLLI5QHI4UXH1/bushra_life-5.jpg Daily Life Portfolio A bridge crossing Regent's Canal London, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731601058-FL4851HSA3G403FSS29C/bushra_life-6.jpg Daily Life Portfolio Graffiti artists put up work in a tunnel in London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731609611-NCYL1AI1KNM4FJMUBRZH/bushra_life-7.jpg Daily Life Portfolio A dog tries to escape through a water drain on Po Fook Hill at Pai Tau Village, Sha Tin in the New Territories, Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731613051-3FY9ILM9DGLVP9FD82M6/bushra_life-8.jpg Daily Life Portfolio Mong Kok Market, Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731619122-UW0YRTJ4WV6M08UXNX9C/bushra_life-9.jpg Daily Life Portfolio Commuters keep an eye on a tablet, phone and newspaper aboard a ferry to Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731628761-O16ZZY5J414HOTWBDDH5/bushra_life-10.jpg Daily Life Portfolio A South Sudanese girl in a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Khartoum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731623897-331FL9Y1PM1HR48ZECEX/bushra_life-11.jpg Daily Life Portfolio A church seen during a haboob, or dust storm, in Cairo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731647457-TJKPGUJ3OS6PG8HSRMRQ/bushra_life-12.jpg Daily Life Portfolio Garbage collectors on a horse-drawn cart in Mounira, Cairo, June 28, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731645544-8PE0N8EN58EE69YX9E3Q/bushra_life-13.jpg Daily Life Portfolio My brother Samir at my apartment in Garden City, Cairo, August 1, 2015. http://shadibushra.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2016-12-19 http://shadibushra.com/young-in-prison-1 daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733970085-PNQ4JNLJH91Y81OR8Y7Y/bushra_yip-1.jpg Young and in Prison - Young and in Prison Until the end of apartheid and the birth of the 'New South Africa' there was no juvenile justice system. But on an abandoned apartheid-era army base on the outskirts of Cape Town, children as young as 12 years old convicted or awaiting trial on charges of drug possession, assault, theft, rape and murder are imprisoned. The youth detention centre takes advantage of the austere barracks and sprawling grounds to host classes, arts, and sports. But with much of the teenage population there being repeat offenders, there are clearly deeper societal issues that keep pulling these kids back into the gates of places like this. Western Cape province has some of the worst gang prevalence in the country. The most entrenched gangs' origin stories go back to the forced relocations of Blacks and Coloured families in keeping with apartheid policies. Although about half of Western Cape province identifies as Coloured, the overwhelming majority of those in the criminal justice system are Coloured, the ethnic group positioned uneasily between the economically powerful Whites and the politically and numerically dominant Black populations. Western Cape province is the one part of the country where Coloureds are the majority, but in addition to being plagued by the poverty that afflicts Africans as well, there is an issue In many ways the young men are still kids, tearing out pages from magazines to stick on their walls and competing fiercely in football and rugby. One, an aspiring opera singer, was regularly allowed to leave to take classes at the University of Cape Town. It was a privilege that at times made him a target of his fellow prisoners, but usually worked in his favor. For those without such talents or the focus to find new passions or at least new distractions, nearby Pollsmor Prison, former home of Nelson Mandela, is ready to take in those young men who prove too much for the juvenile system. Here graffiti on the train from central Cape Town to the detention center reads: "I'm losing my friends in a hurry… They relocating to the cemetery!!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733970085-PNQ4JNLJH91Y81OR8Y7Y/bushra_yip-1.jpg Young and in Prison - Young and in Prison Until the end of apartheid and the birth of the 'New South Africa' there was no juvenile justice system. But on an abandoned apartheid-era army base on the outskirts of Cape Town, children as young as 12 years old convicted or awaiting trial on charges of drug possession, assault, theft, rape and murder are imprisoned. The youth detention centre takes advantage of the austere barracks and sprawling grounds to host classes, arts, and sports. But with much of the teenage population there being repeat offenders, there are clearly deeper societal issues that keep pulling these kids back into the gates of places like this. Western Cape province has some of the worst gang prevalence in the country. The most entrenched gangs' origin stories go back to the forced relocations of Blacks and Coloured families in keeping with apartheid policies. Although about half of Western Cape province identifies as Coloured, the overwhelming majority of those in the criminal justice system are Coloured, the ethnic group positioned uneasily between the economically powerful Whites and the politically and numerically dominant Black populations. Western Cape province is the one part of the country where Coloureds are the majority, but in addition to being plagued by the poverty that afflicts Africans as well, there is an issue In many ways the young men are still kids, tearing out pages from magazines to stick on their walls and competing fiercely in football and rugby. One, an aspiring opera singer, was regularly allowed to leave to take classes at the University of Cape Town. It was a privilege that at times made him a target of his fellow prisoners, but usually worked in his favor. For those without such talents or the focus to find new passions or at least new distractions, nearby Pollsmor Prison, former home of Nelson Mandela, is ready to take in those young men who prove too much for the juvenile system. Here graffiti on the train from central Cape Town to the detention center reads: "I'm losing my friends in a hurry… They relocating to the cemetery!!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733982359-CGMLS24BHYJZZ6MI0KB2/bushra_yip-2.jpg Young and in Prison The center is almost completely empty while the boys are in classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733995202-K21JOR8X30U91OI13B3Q/bushra_yip-3.jpg Young and in Prison A boy walks to his room in the foreground as the cooks rest between meals at a youth detention center in Cape Town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734008649-JQGLSW08PVZOVRGMIKDV/bushra_yip-4.jpg Young and in Prison The detention center is located on an abandoned apartheid-era military base. Air raid sirens mark the beginning and end of their classes and activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734010916-FWPJUAOHOHHDP3IGN3UK/bushra_yip-5.jpg Young and in Prison Western Cape Province, where the detention center is located, offers an array of forests, mountains and beaches, a stark contrast to the detention center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734020672-5P5KC0C6SV1ECDZSAZ8Z/bushra_yip-6.jpg Young and in Prison Donated jerseys allow the boys to play soccer in even better equipment than they would on the outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734028271-M5Z1ZOPKP9EDEXW4RZH6/bushra_yip-7.jpg Young and in Prison As in 'real' prison, much of the day is empty and unstructured. The boys enjoy working out to break the monotony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734041341-KAUPCYW6UFNCFE80JEUE/bushra_yip-8.jpg Young and in Prison Graffiti chronicles one child's four-year stay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734038629-QO1U61QN38VK7BBWUFIR/bushra_yip-9.jpg Young and in Prison A boy tires of another's teasing and prepares to fight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734050468-6R5NK9VFD10GNZA9PDJD/bushra_yip-10.jpg Young and in Prison Three boys pose for a portrait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734045113-NZNKOVFV0UK1LT5D07UT/bushra_yip-11.jpg Young and in Prison A resident takes advantage of higher ground to gaze at the world beyond the compound's gates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734080449-UA23F6KPWYIZ546C68Y8/bushra_yip-12.jpg Young and in Prison The "transit room" where boys who have broken rules, ranging from smoking weed and crystal meth ("tic") to attempting suicide, are kept until they're deemed ready to join the group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734083183-0Q56YBSR1RVPDAG8W0TW/bushra_yip-13.jpg Young and in Prison Between the rows of dormitories, or hostels, that house the boys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734107237-6OAYPSW7DUZDKSS1VWZP/bushra_yip-14.jpg Young and in Prison Lining up between activities allows staff to keep track of the boys and keep order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734112506-OT2L3GYY845TQV3XSKYO/bushra_yip-15.jpg Young and in Prison The boys at the detention center range in age from 11 to 17 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734127159-137FR3V6L8RLANLEFJYO/bushra_yip-16.jpg Young and in Prison One of the boys is training to be an opera singer, spending one day a week taking classes at a nearby university. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734129188-2WUL0OAHKHOTTBUE4I03/bushra_yip-17.jpg Young and in Prison In Western Cape Province, Coloureds make up a plurality of the population, and so also dominate its criminal justice system. http://shadibushra.com/bernie-in-mn daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734060217-FDP6KG4U8IKDZJJ2ORBX/bushra_bernieMN-1.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota - Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum In the heat of the 2016 primary season, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was seeking avenues through which to push his message of economic populism to minority communities, which tended to tilt towards Hillary Clinton. So on a frigid day in February, Sanders spoke at a town hall in Minneapolis convened by Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) and other community organizing groups. The question was how Sanders' economics would specifically address the needs of black, Latino, and other marginalized communities. Sanders' answer was, in a nutshell, that a more fair economy would help everyone, including blacks and Latinos who were make up a disproportionate amount of the working poor. While some accepted this, others kept pushing for his stance on minority-specific programs and even the controversial issue of reparations for the descendants of slaves. An audience member also brought up the topic of the disenfranchisement of convicted felons, while another audience member demanded that Native Americans be included more in conversations like these. It made for a boisterous conversation that seemed to careen from Sanders-friendly to Sanders-hostile on a dime. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was also in Minnesota, but would not be making any public appearances. Instead, she would spend the evening in St. Paul at a big-dollar fundraiser. That, to one organizer, was the difference between Clinton and Sanders - one went to the people, the other went to the money. Here Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who were a critical bloc in the following contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734060217-FDP6KG4U8IKDZJJ2ORBX/bushra_bernieMN-1.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota - Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum In the heat of the 2016 primary season, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was seeking avenues through which to push his message of economic populism to minority communities, which tended to tilt towards Hillary Clinton. So on a frigid day in February, Sanders spoke at a town hall in Minneapolis convened by Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) and other community organizing groups. The question was how Sanders' economics would specifically address the needs of black, Latino, and other marginalized communities. Sanders' answer was, in a nutshell, that a more fair economy would help everyone, including blacks and Latinos who were make up a disproportionate amount of the working poor. While some accepted this, others kept pushing for his stance on minority-specific programs and even the controversial issue of reparations for the descendants of slaves. An audience member also brought up the topic of the disenfranchisement of convicted felons, while another audience member demanded that Native Americans be included more in conversations like these. It made for a boisterous conversation that seemed to careen from Sanders-friendly to Sanders-hostile on a dime. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was also in Minnesota, but would not be making any public appearances. Instead, she would spend the evening in St. Paul at a big-dollar fundraiser. That, to one organizer, was the difference between Clinton and Sanders - one went to the people, the other went to the money. Here Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who were a critical bloc in the following contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734056643-F5MEXPENL7BJKGLQM8M1/bushra_bernieMN-2.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, squinted into the lights at the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734069562-LQ65UVQRF4NP8QZJ5WJ0/bushra_bernieMN-3.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734099420-D1QYVWSGD3THYZYG5T1B/bushra_bernieMN-4.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota A diverse audience of activists, Sanders supporters, and others filled the gymnasium at Patrick Henry High School for the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734101122-P6FK7VM0O6LRPJIPTE7L/bushra_bernieMN-5.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota The gymnasium of Patrick Henry High School, where the Black America Forum was held. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734125827-62MYO4LX64LOTT8Z4Y6U/bushra_bernieMN-6.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota A diverse audience of activists and potential voters listens to Bernie Sanders answer a question at the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734124439-W95OWLQM66SP4IO7PX7W/bushra_bernieMN-7.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota Jason Sole, a felon who had gone on to earn a doctorate, asked Bernie Sanders what he would do for disenfranchised ex-convicts like himself.; Sanders replied that he believed voting rights should not be taken away from felons. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734133596-N0Z3D3Q47ZQY35CBV37E/bushra_bernieMN-8.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota Clyde Bellecourt, a 79-year-old Native American activist asked a five-minute-long question about the U.S. government honoring past treaties with Native Americans, which Bernie Sanders answered briefly before leaving to attend a fundraising dinner in neighboring St. Paul. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734134439-I348FW0DLYUB2FMWRL5H/bushra_bernieMN-9.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734137750-AMG27GEREL7HF0XPMSFN/bushra_bernieMN-10.jpg Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum in Minnesota Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. http://shadibushra.com/egypt-1 daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731694993-7ZQL296RPUFS8J6G3VM8/bushra_egypt-1.jpg Egypt, Under New Management - Egypt, Under New Management Since I arrived in Cairo in September 2014, Egypt has been under the rule of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected president a few months earlier in May. While he has elicited both love and its hate from his fellow Egyptians, the most interesting change from my past trips to the country was the overwhelming and at times unrealistic hopes that so many pinned to Sisi. As head of military intelligence under Hosni Mubarak and the minister of defense under Mohamed Mursi, Sisi has been a figure in government for a long time. But after leading the ouster of Mursi following protests against the Muslim Brotherhood-led rule, Sisi has become the face of Egyptians' aspirations of restoring their country as a regional and global power. Over this year, it's become clear that much of life in Egypt has gone on just as it has before, with little or no change despite those lofty dreams. The economy has improved, though not in a way most Egyptians can feel. Islamic extremism has become worse as those whose comrades and family were swept up in a far-reaching crackdown seek revenge. Violence has begun to reach parts of the country thought to be immune as homegrown jihadists reach out to al Qaeda and Islamic State extremists for guidance. And while many still profess their unshaken admiration for the man at the top, others begin to worry that their faith was misplaced, or that placing so much faith in any man, no matter who he is, is a recipe for disappointment. A butcher hangs a piece of meat during a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731694993-7ZQL296RPUFS8J6G3VM8/bushra_egypt-1.jpg Egypt, Under New Management - Egypt, Under New Management Since I arrived in Cairo in September 2014, Egypt has been under the rule of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected president a few months earlier in May. While he has elicited both love and its hate from his fellow Egyptians, the most interesting change from my past trips to the country was the overwhelming and at times unrealistic hopes that so many pinned to Sisi. As head of military intelligence under Hosni Mubarak and the minister of defense under Mohamed Mursi, Sisi has been a figure in government for a long time. But after leading the ouster of Mursi following protests against the Muslim Brotherhood-led rule, Sisi has become the face of Egyptians' aspirations of restoring their country as a regional and global power. Over this year, it's become clear that much of life in Egypt has gone on just as it has before, with little or no change despite those lofty dreams. The economy has improved, though not in a way most Egyptians can feel. Islamic extremism has become worse as those whose comrades and family were swept up in a far-reaching crackdown seek revenge. Violence has begun to reach parts of the country thought to be immune as homegrown jihadists reach out to al Qaeda and Islamic State extremists for guidance. And while many still profess their unshaken admiration for the man at the top, others begin to worry that their faith was misplaced, or that placing so much faith in any man, no matter who he is, is a recipe for disappointment. A butcher hangs a piece of meat during a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731692905-XYP35IHPZ7E8R94AESTG/bushra_egypt-2.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Young men on al-Qasr al-Aini hand out juice and water to drivers as the muezzin calls out marking the Maghrib prayer that indicates the end of a day of fasting during Ramadan in Cairo, June 27, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731700726-BXQISE5ZQD22DN7H66C3/bushra_egypt-3.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Nurses at the hospital treating the mortally wounded public prosecutor look down on the security forces below, in Cairo, Egypt, June 29, 2015. Egypt's top prosecutor was assassinated by an extremist group in retaliation for what government critics say is a crackdown on Islamists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731703646-8XB63LR8EMV5TKHYDWE6/bushra_egypt-4.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Police officers and civilians gawk at the damage done to cars and buildings at the scene of the car bomb that killed Egypt's top public prosecutor, in Cairo, Egypt, June 29, 2015. Hesham Barakat was the most senior Egyptian government official assassinated in decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731711550-7G48E28L853U1XFOM8MN/bushra_egypt-5.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Aboard a ship on a tour of Egypt's expansion to the Suez Canal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731720043-8CDIEVC17VPBZIBVB8HD/bushra_egypt-6.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A cow is transported in al-Haram, Cairo, on Eid al-Adha, the Muslim celebration of Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son for God, October 4, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731716016-15IH30GW5F8N10SDC9FP/bushra_egypt-7.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Beach on the Red Sea in Alexandria, Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731744625-N3FIL04CXOXUYE8ZLD7C/bushra_egypt-8.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A ride at a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731754093-1KYGEL1ZIXDMOQI61B9Q/bushra_egypt-9.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A view of the working class neighborhood across Salah Salem Street from the lush Al Azhar Park in Cairo, Egypt, January 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731774567-YTVDGUOIVGN4FQ3WYKYZ/bushra_egypt-10.jpg Egypt, Under New Management The mask of King Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum on Saturday January 24, 2014 in Cairo, Egypt. The museum admitted on Saturday that workers had accidentally unattached the beard of one of Egypt's most treasured artifacts and then tried to reattach it using epoxy glue in August 2014. The museum did not acknowledge the incident until photographs showing a ring of glue around the boy king's beard began to circulate this week. The incident has brought into question whether Egypt can take care of its many priceless artifacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731777042-UMWXUJYB9UIEGDKOV25N/bushra_egypt-11.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A woman walks near sacks filled with wheat in the inaugural warehouse of Egypt’s new nationwide wheat storage system, designed by U.S. based Blumberg Grains, in Alexandria, Egypt, July 7, 2015. The sites are connected to a “command centre” in Cairo where the government can keep track of how much wheat is in storage nationwide and monitor for fraud and spoilage. If all goes according to plan, the warehouses could help Egypt, the world's top wheat importer, achieve a goal of cutting its $3 billion bread subsidy bill by reducing waste and corruption in the supply line. REUTERS/Shadi Bushra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731792216-DFN0IVDZ2G6X2992TGLG/bushra_egypt-12.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Am Tayeb shades himself in Shubra Kheit, Egypt, about 150 km north of Cairo, on July 29, 2015. Recent reversals in cotton policy have left cotton producers questioning the government's commitment to the once-prized export. (Reuters/Shadi Bushra) http://shadibushra.com/front-page daily 1.0 2016-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731402605-YOD4YY4UQDMW32DWKBTS/bushra_A1-1-2.jpg Front Page A ride at a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731402605-YOD4YY4UQDMW32DWKBTS/bushra_A1-1-2.jpg Front Page A ride at a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731410306-5AEPNN4ISNUQKE98AAQD/bushra_A1-2-2.jpg Front Page A butcher hangs a piece of meat during a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731408565-FZBM5ACUX132SEAZUJDR/bushra_A1-3-2.jpg Front Page A church seen during a haboob, or dust storm, in Cairo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731417239-N23KYQCY5L08KVC4M2P2/bushra_A1-4-2.jpg Front Page At the site of the Tian Tan Buddha in Ngong Ping on Lantau Island, Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731420414-FWJV32JLMM7WTID3SS2I/bushra_A1-5-2.jpg Front Page My brother Samir at my apartment in Garden City, Cairo, August 1, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731428035-E3J0ANIINNU7OJ4GRZYD/bushra_A1-6-2.jpg Front Page A cow is transported in al-Haram, Cairo, on Eid al-Adha, the Muslim celebration of Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son for God, October 4, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731437964-J79T3GV2LMT897KHN2VI/bushra_A1-7-2.jpg Front Page A view of the working class neighborhood across Salah Salem Street from the lush Al Azhar Park in Cairo, Egypt, January 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731446778-WMNNMBWO41E3WKENB7F6/bushra_A1-8-2.jpg Front Page Young men on al-Qasr al-Aini hand out juice and water to drivers as the muezzin calls out marking the Maghrib prayer that indicates the end of a day of fasting during Ramadan in Cairo, June 27, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731446160-3W6ONLJH6Y7HLLE4L4H0/bushra_A1-9-2.jpg Front Page Nurses at the hospital treating the mortally wounded public prosecutor look down on the security forces below, in Cairo, Egypt, June 29, 2015. Egypt's top prosecutor was assassinated by an extremist group in retaliation for what government critics say is a crackdown on Islamists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731456523-9504802WGJ16PEQCP93Q/bushra_A1-10-2.jpg Front Page Police officers and civilians gawk at the damage done to cars and buildings at the scene of the car bomb that killed Egypt's top public prosecutor, in Cairo, Egypt, June 29, 2015. Hesham Barakat was the most senior Egyptian government official assassinated in decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731458644-J8LLO48XMID2K56N3U0D/bushra_A1-11-2.jpg Front Page Police arrest a drunk man in Kilburn, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731481162-63D3M4MHCPCT5OCK5NMN/bushra_A1-12-2.jpg Front Page Taxidermist's shop in Islington, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731480101-K7RF0EEFZM8V4TZL3R5C/bushra_A1-13-2.jpg Front Page A police conscript smokes while defense lawyers confer with one another before a session of the retrial session of former Al Jazeera English journalists, at Tora Prison on the outskirts of Cairo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731491080-KUTYBC8CFM7D27E6ITF9/bushra_A1-14-2.jpg Front Page A mountain seen across the Red Sea from a hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015.\ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731497529-9XV4TW8TE3KML8EL2ZZJ/bushra_A1-15-2.jpg Front Page - Arego Simon takes a break from listening to BBC World News on hi Arego Simon takes a break from listening to BBC World News on his radio to reflect over the grave of his brother, Attore. At 76 years old, Arego lived through independence from Britain, and two North-South Sudanese civil wars. During the latest civil war, the grave was damaged by shrapnel from the Sudanese government's Antonov bombers. http://shadibushra.com/egypt-tourism daily 0.75 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114372258-VRF4MR9HP6SU518KCUR5/bushra_sharmtourism-1-2.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade - Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade Three months before I met him, Sobhi Osman quit his job at a clothing factory, said goodbye to his family and friends in Ismailia and boarded a bus to Sharm el-Sheikh. His hometown friends who had earlier made the move to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt’s premier destination for sun-and-surf tourism, were imploring him to come. They insisted that tourism at the Red Sea resort town was strong again as the political turmoil that for years had kept foreigners away from Egypt began to subside. Though he didn’t even have a job yet, Osman spent most of the six hour bus ride from Ismailia thinking about what he would do with the windfall he hoped to earn from working at one of the nearly two hundred hotels in Sharm el-Sheikh. Soon after arriving in the glitzy seaside town full of Russian, British and other European tourists, Osman landed a job at the “Sharming Inn” hotel. He made making a third more money than he did at his last job, where he sewed logos such as Nike, Puma, and Adidas on counterfeit brand-name shirts at a clothing store in Ismailia. Since the hotel provided him with free food and board in Sharm el-Sheikh, he could send most of the money home and begin saving for marriage. He was making progress towards the same dream of financial stability and independence that pulls many young Egyptians from their homes and into a sector that at its height employed xx million Egyptians. Then a Russian passenger plane leaving Sharm el-Sheikh was brought down by a bomb believed to have been planted by the local branch of Islamic State, killing over two hundred tourists on board and prompting a panic among foreigners in Sharm el-Sheikh, which until then had been considered one of the safest areas in Egypt. Even after some countries stopped flights to Sharm and began airlifting their citizens home in response to fears that Islamic extremists had penetrated the garrisoned resort town, Sobhi remained optimistic. “I hear about tourists leaving Sharm, but thankfully we’ve still had work since then,” he said outside of his hotel-provided apartment building nine days after the crash. “Some will leave and some will stay, and eventually most will come back. Tourists returned after the (2011) revolution, they’ll come back again.” Two days later, he called me from Sharm el-Sheikh’s bus station, where he was about to begin a decidedly less hopeful trip than the journey he undertook three months ago. The Sharming Inn had told him that there was no more work for the month now that most of its guests had checked out and cancelled future bookings. “They said they would call us next month if they needed us,” he said, though the dejection palpable over the line suggested this wasn’t likely. So, again, he packed some of the bags he’d brought three months ago and boarded a bus, this time going back to Ismailia as an early casualty of a tourism crisis that is likely toget much worse before it gets better. Here a mountain is seen across the Red Sea from a luxury hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114372258-VRF4MR9HP6SU518KCUR5/bushra_sharmtourism-1-2.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade - Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade Three months before I met him, Sobhi Osman quit his job at a clothing factory, said goodbye to his family and friends in Ismailia and boarded a bus to Sharm el-Sheikh. His hometown friends who had earlier made the move to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt’s premier destination for sun-and-surf tourism, were imploring him to come. They insisted that tourism at the Red Sea resort town was strong again as the political turmoil that for years had kept foreigners away from Egypt began to subside. Though he didn’t even have a job yet, Osman spent most of the six hour bus ride from Ismailia thinking about what he would do with the windfall he hoped to earn from working at one of the nearly two hundred hotels in Sharm el-Sheikh. Soon after arriving in the glitzy seaside town full of Russian, British and other European tourists, Osman landed a job at the “Sharming Inn” hotel. He made making a third more money than he did at his last job, where he sewed logos such as Nike, Puma, and Adidas on counterfeit brand-name shirts at a clothing store in Ismailia. Since the hotel provided him with free food and board in Sharm el-Sheikh, he could send most of the money home and begin saving for marriage. He was making progress towards the same dream of financial stability and independence that pulls many young Egyptians from their homes and into a sector that at its height employed xx million Egyptians. Then a Russian passenger plane leaving Sharm el-Sheikh was brought down by a bomb believed to have been planted by the local branch of Islamic State, killing over two hundred tourists on board and prompting a panic among foreigners in Sharm el-Sheikh, which until then had been considered one of the safest areas in Egypt. Even after some countries stopped flights to Sharm and began airlifting their citizens home in response to fears that Islamic extremists had penetrated the garrisoned resort town, Sobhi remained optimistic. “I hear about tourists leaving Sharm, but thankfully we’ve still had work since then,” he said outside of his hotel-provided apartment building nine days after the crash. “Some will leave and some will stay, and eventually most will come back. Tourists returned after the (2011) revolution, they’ll come back again.” Two days later, he called me from Sharm el-Sheikh’s bus station, where he was about to begin a decidedly less hopeful trip than the journey he undertook three months ago. The Sharming Inn had told him that there was no more work for the month now that most of its guests had checked out and cancelled future bookings. “They said they would call us next month if they needed us,” he said, though the dejection palpable over the line suggested this wasn’t likely. So, again, he packed some of the bags he’d brought three months ago and boarded a bus, this time going back to Ismailia as an early casualty of a tourism crisis that is likely toget much worse before it gets better. Here a mountain is seen across the Red Sea from a luxury hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114289326-FRQVXBJJJQ0LINBG79GZ/bushra_sharmtourism-1-2.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade A mountain seen across the Red Sea from a hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015.\ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114319356-JO4455Y8HYBTH51VWGXV/bushra_sharmtourism-2.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade Men wait for a bus near a billboard in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114315635-28Z52B33GMNZJL2CAJNV/bushra_sharmtourism-3.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade A plane takes off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on November 7, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114312962-SZX3X4QUVCHCBD1MLNW5/bushra_sharmtourism-4.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade A motor pumps groundwater from a well behind a hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 7, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114304916-R856214HPB1C5TU8I2NX/bushra_sharmtourism-5.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade At the airport, a taxi driver says no one is arriving to the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, which is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114313189-2JPJN5WR93KTNWW3W4IO/bushra_sharmtourism-6.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade The empty boardwalk of Neema Bay, usually a top tourist attraction in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 8, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114301986-DB7CI8MEH7HSKUMLCF3O/bushra_sharmtourism-7.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade Truck drivers from al-Saeed, or Upper Egypt, who live in Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have migrated from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry. One of the drivers had served with an international peacekeeping force in Kadugli, Sudan, and was worried that a persistent anti-government insurgency would hurt Egypt's economy like it did Sudan's. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114294895-T4WP0QB38OX11L29W8HN/bushra_sharmtourism-8.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade A view of improvised housing and tour buses under the sahdow of the Heavenly Cathedral in Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have traveled from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114289924-JYBCMSTNGP2QNJTH2L16/bushra_sharmtourism-9.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade Construction workers who said they had been told they may have to stop construction on a building for housing hotel workers in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 9, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114284822-EZSJBJ4V1PIHUSKSKB65/bushra_sharmtourism-11.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade Drivers wait for work outside the hotel-provided housing near Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have traveled from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry.The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114268376-8B00DGBYAO25VPQGH69N/bushra_sharmtourism-10.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114268698-KU177UWT138Y0FHJ75M0/bushra_sharmtourism-12.jpg Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade A vendor tastes his food in Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have traveled from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry.The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. http://shadibushra.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2016-12-19 http://shadibushra.com/south-sudan-road daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482138680658-PX9T8V2GBWISQFBH0RFR/bushra_southsudan-15.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" - Two men return from hunting along the Juba-Nimule Road. The Madi Two men return from hunting along the Juba-Nimule Road. The Madi tribe that makes up about four-fifths of the population along the road often hunts by burning large swathes of forest and then ambushing the animals as they escape downwind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731978792-LTOGUPZ0H8J6BR8UW138/bushra_southsudan-1.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" - South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" When South Sudan was birthed after a long civil war, there was much its midwives had to do to bring it into its new status. Germany replaced the tents housing government ministries with buildings, fellow oil exporter Norway advised the government on the perils and prospects of petro-statehood, while everyone contributed to improving some of the world’s worst health and education statistics through the United Nations. China built the capital’s airport, Japan built bridges, and the United States, a country of Cadillacs and Chevys, built the country’s first highway. The 192-km paved motorway snakes through the south of the country from the capital, Juba, to the Ugandan. It was built by USAID - at a quarter-billion dollars - to reduce dependence on north Sudan and deepen regional ties. The American ambassador in Juba, Susan Fine, called it the country's "road to prosperity." Despite delays and cost overruns, it was touted as the largest project in South Sudan, effectively doubling the amount of paved roads in the country. I chose to focus my project on the social effects of this new goliath road. There were benefits, such as bringing distant schools and hospitals within reach and creating new drinking wells from boreholes drilled for the construction process. Meanwhile tukuls, mud-and-straw homes, can stock up on essentials from stores that are serviced by a stream of trucks. The road also brings home South Sudanese refugees who fled the war and now see an opportunity to resettle. But a cash crunch amid a renewed civil war have made maintaining and policing the road a low priority, turning the Juba-Nimule road into one of the most dangerous stretches for accidents on the continent. East African drivers are on the road for days with no designated rest-stops, and are fatigued by the time they cross the border. Suddenly they have to drive on the opposite side, over gaping potholes, with zero streetlights and almost no police. One telling story was that of a bus from Kenya that hit and killed a half-dozen and did not stop. Villagers up the road blocked the street, dragged the driver out, and stoned him to death. The chief explained to me that there would be no justice otherwise, as dozens of drivers who kill pedestrians simply drive away with no police to chase them. The bus is still parked in the village square, near the road, as a reminder to those who would drive recklessly. Here a girl stops along the road to hitch-hike home after a day of cutting sugarcane for market. Sugarcane and other crops form the backbone of the South Sudanese economy. However, trade is highly localized in part due to a lack of transportation to get crops to larger and more lucrative markets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731964434-NUL0Y68U5W2HZQWLRFC3/bushra_southsudan-2.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Parina and her children inside her tukul, the traditional mud and straw hut common throughout South Sudan, located along the Juba-Nimule road. Most along the road live without electricity and running water. Although the road has drastically increased public transportation, she still cannot afford to take the buses constantly passing by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731996526-PMB1JT3IIRG0A46250RJ/bushra_southsudan-3.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" The carcasses of a small car and a lorry face each other after a head-on collision. South Sudan finished construction of its first paved inter-city road in September, 2012, linking the capital, Juba to the Ugandan border to increase trade. However, a side effect has been skyrocketing traffic accidents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733631235-NOB4710C419K4VCIT0MD/bushra_southsudan-4.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" James Fega, who walks an hour and a half to his post selling coal along the road, watches as a car passes after buying its coal elsewhere. Most stores dependent on imports have seen profits boom due to easy access to factories in Uganda and the Port of Mombassa in Kenya. Businesses reliant on South Sudanese products, such as charcoal, have seen their sales plummet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732097442-90HEP4YROIF2RSTQFCVM/bushra_southsudan-5.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Trucks heading south towards the Ugandan border. The 192 km Juba-Nimule road is South Sudan's first paved highway, built by the United States government at a cost of $230 million dollars to support the young nation's development after a half century of war between South Sudanese rebels and the central government in Khartoum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732117434-2L7MLRP236AU7E30IPBT/bushra_southsudan-6.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Maripani rearranges her children for a portrait in the roadside village of Baibai. There are about a dozen villages that the road bisects over its 192 km from Juba to the Ugandan border. Since the road was built, transportation has become easier, but residents complain of speeding, accidents, and an increase in prostitution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732132431-PLLLP0QZSS0KKFPDKY96/bushra_southsudan-7.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Mobutu, a resident of Pageri village, inside his tukul, which has a number of minor amenities, like toothpaste and laundry soap, that would be much more difficult to obtain without the new road. The structure is popular throughout the region for its simple construction, cool temperature, and flexibility of use. A single man, Mobutu has about five square meters to himself. A wealthy man would have a tukul for himself, each of his wives, as well as separate tukuls for cooking and other uses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732172506-FUMF4Q2PX66SUGDCKU06/bushra_southsudan-8.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Children pump water out of a borehole in Loa, near the Juba-Nimule Road. Many of the boreholes in nearby villages were installed by the construction companies building the road because the construction process is so water-intensive. Since construction ended, the boreholes have become necessary parts of people's lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732205506-41EK4AIV82S2NPNG7BU5/bushra_southsudan-9.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" The bus that killed five bystanders in Loa village. It was eventually stopped up the road in Pageri and the driver was stoned to death. Buses coming from Nairobi and Kampala are common on the road, as they bring migrants looking for work as well as South Sudanese refugees returning home after years of exile in neighboring countries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732220563-X24EMHGJ4TVNYR0L88BC/bushra_southsudan-10.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" A solar panel provides power to a store along the Juba-Nimule Road, South Sudan's first paved road. The overwhelming majority of homes and businesses in South Sudan do not have electricity, and those that do get it from diesel generators or solar panels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732269747-5ES37G7EOG70JNYB6O5T/bushra_southsudan-11.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Arego Simon takes a break from listening to BBC World News on his radio to reflect over the grave of his brother, Attore. At 76 years old, Arego lived through independence from Britain, and two North-South Sudanese civil wars. During the latest civil war, the grave was damaged by shrapnel from the Sudanese government's Antonov bombers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732285629-1OTZREAVBF4RYMG1TG8Z/bushra_southsudan-12.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Tabu Kalisto uses his motorcycle to ferry passengers from nearby villages to Nimule, sometimes packing as many as four passengers onto his back seat of his boda-boda, as the motorcycle taxis are called. The newly paved road has caused a decline in Kalisto's profits since buses and private cars now operate in greater numbers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732339611-9OBR69VLJ8G2WKD56MLK/bushra_southsudan-13.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Adolescents walking along the road as they head home from cutting sugarcane to sell. Although cars are allowed to travel at 80 kmph on the road, many villagers continue to use it as a footpath since it is easier to walk on than the bumpy land along it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732385722-6LF7L0NVNBE2KO4XEAVO/bushra_southsudan-14.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" The carcass of a crashed car lies in a forest after a man-made fire along the Juba-Nimule road. A common complaint is that crashed vehicles are not removed from the road, sometimes becoming a danger to traffic. The government responds that it has enough trouble getting the manpower to police speeding vehicles to prevent future accidents to focus on past ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732465176-M6NWMPIQVI6MQE2RJDJE/bushra_southsudan-15.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Two men return from hunting along the Juba-Nimule Road. The Madi tribe that makes up about four-fifths of the population along the road often hunts by burning large swathes of forest and then ambushing the animals as they escape downwind. http://shadibushra.com/london daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733864387-I31RTJZIY3P1DTW6A1PI/bushra_london-1.jpg London, Through My Lens - London, Through My Lens I was working full time as a wire reporter while I was in London and chafed at the long hours I had to spend in an office while life moved at a dizzying pace on the streets below. Trying to find a balance, I would always keep my camera and a fast 50mm lens on me - on the way to and from work, heading to meetings and interviews, and during late-night walks, I would prowl the streets looking for interesting images that offered a glimpse at some less-seen parts of London. Making photographs became an outlet as I became more and more frustrated at parts of my job, and at what I perceived to be the insufferably slow pace that my dreams and ambitions writ large were realizing themselves. In retrospect, I am grateful for the career opportunities I had then, but even more so for the unlikely relationships and overdue self-growth that was catalyzed by my being alone, disconnected, and frustrated. The truth is, if I had felt fulfilled I probably wouldn't have gone to such trouble to find interesting pictures. Police arrest a drunk man in Kilburn, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733864387-I31RTJZIY3P1DTW6A1PI/bushra_london-1.jpg London, Through My Lens - London, Through My Lens I was working full time as a wire reporter while I was in London and chafed at the long hours I had to spend in an office while life moved at a dizzying pace on the streets below. Trying to find a balance, I would always keep my camera and a fast 50mm lens on me - on the way to and from work, heading to meetings and interviews, and during late-night walks, I would prowl the streets looking for interesting images that offered a glimpse at some less-seen parts of London. Making photographs became an outlet as I became more and more frustrated at parts of my job, and at what I perceived to be the insufferably slow pace that my dreams and ambitions writ large were realizing themselves. In retrospect, I am grateful for the career opportunities I had then, but even more so for the unlikely relationships and overdue self-growth that was catalyzed by my being alone, disconnected, and frustrated. The truth is, if I had felt fulfilled I probably wouldn't have gone to such trouble to find interesting pictures. Police arrest a drunk man in Kilburn, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733865526-L9ICZRTT4AJVL07W05CW/bushra_london-2.jpg London, Through My Lens At the Thomson Reuters Christmas party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733872507-BHYCM9PSZOIFF0O4IQQK/bushra_london-3.jpg London, Through My Lens Streaking man exiting a Tube station in London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733881681-U2RRP6SKK34PSIY0EVNE/bushra_london-4.jpg London, Through My Lens Taxidermist's shop in Islington, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733881254-VW2E77O494Z91JTVOVAO/bushra_london-5.jpg London, Through My Lens A Lamborghini and its driver in London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733892412-LCR92RLCNE136AQKNJSO/bushra_london-6.jpg London, Through My Lens Outside a random house party in Islington, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733932338-BIBXZ64ETAZ77QRH95AM/bushra_london-7.jpg London, Through My Lens A fox in Islington, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733940361-KNW4SKX29I52M2J7JQ10/bushra_london-8.jpg London, Through My Lens British-Tamil protestors demonstrate outside the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. Many Tamils opposed Sri Lanka hosting the 2013 summit of the Commonwealth, accusing the government of rights violations over the course of a 23-year civil war that ended in 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733942467-TTNC3E93CCBOOGCFRYWH/bushra_london-9.jpg London, Through My Lens A jeweller talks to customers somewhere near Green Park, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733969021-PL3UFEEVTCK9M0M47ZI0/bushra_london-10.jpg London, Through My Lens Water display at Canary Wharf, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733981212-7DKEDZWL76ZTEUBESKDZ/bushra_london-11.jpg London, Through My Lens London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733977843-7595HHMOMNRF5OTKWCTK/bushra_london-12.jpg London, Through My Lens Violinist Haig Papazian, and lead singer Hamed Sinno of the Lebanese alternative-rock band Mashrou’ Leila, at their first performance in London at The Garage on October 08, 2013. (Reuters/Shadi Bushra) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734002235-CDPLFKBTQAGNBCK1EV3C/bushra_london-13.jpg London, Through My Lens Max Clifford, Britain's best-known celebrity publicist who once represented Simon Cowell and Muhammad Ali, leaves Southwark Crown Court in London October 4, 2013. Clifford pleaded not guilty to 11 charges of indecently assaulting teenage girls at this hearing. 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Germany replaced the tents housing government ministries with buildings, fellow oil exporter Norway advised the government on the perils and prospects of petro-statehood, while everyone contributed to improving some of the world’s worst health and education statistics through the United Nations. China built the capital’s airport, Japan built bridges, and the United States, a country of Cadillacs and Chevys, built the country’s first highway. The 192-km paved motorway snakes through the south of the country from the capital, Juba, to the Ugandan. It was built by USAID - at a quarter-billion dollars - to reduce dependence on north Sudan and deepen regional ties. The American ambassador in Juba, Susan Fine, called it the country's "road to prosperity." Despite delays and cost overruns, it was touted as the largest project in South Sudan, effectively doubling the amount of paved roads in the country. I chose to focus my project on the social effects of this new goliath road. There were benefits, such as bringing distant schools and hospitals within reach and creating new drinking wells from boreholes drilled for the construction process. Meanwhile tukuls, mud-and-straw homes, can stock up on essentials from stores that are serviced by a stream of trucks. The road also brings home South Sudanese refugees who fled the war and now see an opportunity to resettle. But a cash crunch amid a renewed civil war have made maintaining and policing the road a low priority, turning the Juba-Nimule road into one of the most dangerous stretches for accidents on the continent. East African drivers are on the road for days with no designated rest-stops, and are fatigued by the time they cross the border. Suddenly they have to drive on the opposite side, over gaping potholes, with zero streetlights and almost no police. One telling story was that of a bus from Kenya that hit and killed a half-dozen and did not stop. Villagers up the road blocked the street, dragged the driver out, and stoned him to death. The chief explained to me that there would be no justice otherwise, as dozens of drivers who kill pedestrians simply drive away with no police to chase them. The bus is still parked in the village square, near the road, as a reminder to those who would drive recklessly. Here a girl stops along the road to hitch-hike home after a day of cutting sugarcane for market. Sugarcane and other crops form the backbone of the South Sudanese economy. However, trade is highly localized in part due to a lack of transportation to get crops to larger and more lucrative markets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731964434-NUL0Y68U5W2HZQWLRFC3/bushra_southsudan-2.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Parina and her children inside her tukul, the traditional mud and straw hut common throughout South Sudan, located along the Juba-Nimule road. Most along the road live without electricity and running water. Although the road has drastically increased public transportation, she still cannot afford to take the buses constantly passing by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731996526-PMB1JT3IIRG0A46250RJ/bushra_southsudan-3.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" The carcasses of a small car and a lorry face each other after a head-on collision. South Sudan finished construction of its first paved inter-city road in September, 2012, linking the capital, Juba to the Ugandan border to increase trade. However, a side effect has been skyrocketing traffic accidents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733631235-NOB4710C419K4VCIT0MD/bushra_southsudan-4.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" James Fega, who walks an hour and a half to his post selling coal along the road, watches as a car passes after buying its coal elsewhere. Most stores dependent on imports have seen profits boom due to easy access to factories in Uganda and the Port of Mombassa in Kenya. Businesses reliant on South Sudanese products, such as charcoal, have seen their sales plummet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732097442-90HEP4YROIF2RSTQFCVM/bushra_southsudan-5.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Trucks heading south towards the Ugandan border. The 192 km Juba-Nimule road is South Sudan's first paved highway, built by the United States government at a cost of $230 million dollars to support the young nation's development after a half century of war between South Sudanese rebels and the central government in Khartoum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732117434-2L7MLRP236AU7E30IPBT/bushra_southsudan-6.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Maripani rearranges her children for a portrait in the roadside village of Baibai. There are about a dozen villages that the road bisects over its 192 km from Juba to the Ugandan border. Since the road was built, transportation has become easier, but residents complain of speeding, accidents, and an increase in prostitution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732132431-PLLLP0QZSS0KKFPDKY96/bushra_southsudan-7.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Mobutu, a resident of Pageri village, inside his tukul, which has a number of minor amenities, like toothpaste and laundry soap, that would be much more difficult to obtain without the new road. The structure is popular throughout the region for its simple construction, cool temperature, and flexibility of use. A single man, Mobutu has about five square meters to himself. A wealthy man would have a tukul for himself, each of his wives, as well as separate tukuls for cooking and other uses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732172506-FUMF4Q2PX66SUGDCKU06/bushra_southsudan-8.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Children pump water out of a borehole in Loa, near the Juba-Nimule Road. Many of the boreholes in nearby villages were installed by the construction companies building the road because the construction process is so water-intensive. Since construction ended, the boreholes have become necessary parts of people's lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732205506-41EK4AIV82S2NPNG7BU5/bushra_southsudan-9.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" The bus that killed five bystanders in Loa village. It was eventually stopped up the road in Pageri and the driver was stoned to death. Buses coming from Nairobi and Kampala are common on the road, as they bring migrants looking for work as well as South Sudanese refugees returning home after years of exile in neighboring countries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732220563-X24EMHGJ4TVNYR0L88BC/bushra_southsudan-10.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" A solar panel provides power to a store along the Juba-Nimule Road, South Sudan's first paved road. The overwhelming majority of homes and businesses in South Sudan do not have electricity, and those that do get it from diesel generators or solar panels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732269747-5ES37G7EOG70JNYB6O5T/bushra_southsudan-11.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Arego Simon takes a break from listening to BBC World News on his radio to reflect over the grave of his brother, Attore. At 76 years old, Arego lived through independence from Britain, and two North-South Sudanese civil wars. During the latest civil war, the grave was damaged by shrapnel from the Sudanese government's Antonov bombers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732285629-1OTZREAVBF4RYMG1TG8Z/bushra_southsudan-12.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Tabu Kalisto uses his motorcycle to ferry passengers from nearby villages to Nimule, sometimes packing as many as four passengers onto his back seat of his boda-boda, as the motorcycle taxis are called. The newly paved road has caused a decline in Kalisto's profits since buses and private cars now operate in greater numbers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732339611-9OBR69VLJ8G2WKD56MLK/bushra_southsudan-13.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Adolescents walking along the road as they head home from cutting sugarcane to sell. Although cars are allowed to travel at 80 kmph on the road, many villagers continue to use it as a footpath since it is easier to walk on than the bumpy land along it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732385722-6LF7L0NVNBE2KO4XEAVO/bushra_southsudan-14.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" The carcass of a crashed car lies in a forest after a man-made fire along the Juba-Nimule road. A common complaint is that crashed vehicles are not removed from the road, sometimes becoming a danger to traffic. The government responds that it has enough trouble getting the manpower to police speeding vehicles to prevent future accidents to focus on past ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481732465176-M6NWMPIQVI6MQE2RJDJE/bushra_southsudan-15.jpg South Sudan's "Road to Prosperity" Two men return from hunting along the Juba-Nimule Road. The Madi tribe that makes up about four-fifths of the population along the road often hunts by burning large swathes of forest and then ambushing the animals as they escape downwind. http://shadibushra.com/egypt daily 0.75 2016-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731694993-7ZQL296RPUFS8J6G3VM8/bushra_egypt-1.jpg Egypt, Under New Management - Egypt, Under New Management Since I arrived in Cairo in September 2014, Egypt has been under the rule of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected president a few months earlier in May. While he has elicited both love and its hate from his fellow Egyptians, the most interesting change from my past trips to the country was the overwhelming and at times unrealistic hopes that so many pinned to Sisi. As head of military intelligence under Hosni Mubarak and the minister of defense under Mohamed Mursi, Sisi has been a figure in government for a long time. But after leading the ouster of Mursi following protests against the Muslim Brotherhood-led rule, Sisi has become the face of Egyptians' aspirations of restoring their country as a regional and global power. Over this year, it's become clear that much of life in Egypt has gone on just as it has before, with little or no change despite those lofty dreams. The economy has improved, though not in a way most Egyptians can feel. Islamic extremism has become worse as those whose comrades and family were swept up in a far-reaching crackdown seek revenge. Violence has begun to reach parts of the country thought to be immune as homegrown jihadists reach out to al Qaeda and Islamic State extremists for guidance. And while many still profess their unshaken admiration for the man at the top, others begin to worry that their faith was misplaced, or that placing so much faith in any man, no matter who he is, is a recipe for disappointment. A butcher hangs a piece of meat during a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731692905-XYP35IHPZ7E8R94AESTG/bushra_egypt-2.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Young men on al-Qasr al-Aini hand out juice and water to drivers as the muezzin calls out marking the Maghrib prayer that indicates the end of a day of fasting during Ramadan in Cairo, June 27, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731700726-BXQISE5ZQD22DN7H66C3/bushra_egypt-3.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Nurses at the hospital treating the mortally wounded public prosecutor look down on the security forces below, in Cairo, Egypt, June 29, 2015. Egypt's top prosecutor was assassinated by an extremist group in retaliation for what government critics say is a crackdown on Islamists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731703646-8XB63LR8EMV5TKHYDWE6/bushra_egypt-4.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Police officers and civilians gawk at the damage done to cars and buildings at the scene of the car bomb that killed Egypt's top public prosecutor, in Cairo, Egypt, June 29, 2015. Hesham Barakat was the most senior Egyptian government official assassinated in decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731711550-7G48E28L853U1XFOM8MN/bushra_egypt-5.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Aboard a ship on a tour of Egypt's expansion to the Suez Canal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731720043-8CDIEVC17VPBZIBVB8HD/bushra_egypt-6.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A cow is transported in al-Haram, Cairo, on Eid al-Adha, the Muslim celebration of Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son for God, October 4, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731716016-15IH30GW5F8N10SDC9FP/bushra_egypt-7.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Beach on the Red Sea in Alexandria, Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731744625-N3FIL04CXOXUYE8ZLD7C/bushra_egypt-8.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A ride at a festival celebrating the birthday of Sayeda Zainab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammad, near her shrine in Cairo, May 12, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731754093-1KYGEL1ZIXDMOQI61B9Q/bushra_egypt-9.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A view of the working class neighborhood across Salah Salem Street from the lush Al Azhar Park in Cairo, Egypt, January 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731774567-YTVDGUOIVGN4FQ3WYKYZ/bushra_egypt-10.jpg Egypt, Under New Management The mask of King Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum on Saturday January 24, 2014 in Cairo, Egypt. The museum admitted on Saturday that workers had accidentally unattached the beard of one of Egypt's most treasured artifacts and then tried to reattach it using epoxy glue in August 2014. The museum did not acknowledge the incident until photographs showing a ring of glue around the boy king's beard began to circulate this week. The incident has brought into question whether Egypt can take care of its many priceless artifacts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731777042-UMWXUJYB9UIEGDKOV25N/bushra_egypt-11.jpg Egypt, Under New Management A woman walks near sacks filled with wheat in the inaugural warehouse of Egypt’s new nationwide wheat storage system, designed by U.S. based Blumberg Grains, in Alexandria, Egypt, July 7, 2015. The sites are connected to a “command centre” in Cairo where the government can keep track of how much wheat is in storage nationwide and monitor for fraud and spoilage. If all goes according to plan, the warehouses could help Egypt, the world's top wheat importer, achieve a goal of cutting its $3 billion bread subsidy bill by reducing waste and corruption in the supply line. REUTERS/Shadi Bushra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731792216-DFN0IVDZ2G6X2992TGLG/bushra_egypt-12.jpg Egypt, Under New Management Am Tayeb shades himself in Shubra Kheit, Egypt, about 150 km north of Cairo, on July 29, 2015. Recent reversals in cotton policy have left cotton producers questioning the government's commitment to the once-prized export. (Reuters/Shadi Bushra) http://shadibushra.com/young-in-prison daily 0.75 2016-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733970085-PNQ4JNLJH91Y81OR8Y7Y/bushra_yip-1.jpg Young and In Prison - Young and in Prison Until the end of apartheid and the birth of the 'New South Africa' there was no juvenile justice system. But on an abandoned apartheid-era army base on the outskirts of Cape Town, children as young as 12 years old convicted or awaiting trial on charges of drug possession, assault, theft, rape and murder are imprisoned. The youth detention centre takes advantage of the austere barracks and sprawling grounds to host classes, arts, and sports. But with much of the teenage population there being repeat offenders, there are clearly deeper societal issues that keep pulling these kids back into the gates of places like this. Western Cape province has some of the worst gang prevalence in the country. The most entrenched gangs' origin stories go back to the forced relocations of Blacks and Coloured families in keeping with apartheid policies. Although about half of Western Cape province identifies as Coloured, the overwhelming majority of those in the criminal justice system are Coloured, the ethnic group positioned uneasily between the economically powerful Whites and the politically and numerically dominant Black populations. Western Cape province is the one part of the country where Coloureds are the majority, but in addition to being plagued by the poverty that afflicts Africans as well, there is an issue In many ways the young men are still kids, tearing out pages from magazines to stick on their walls and competing fiercely in football and rugby. One, an aspiring opera singer, was regularly allowed to leave to take classes at the University of Cape Town. It was a privilege that at times made him a target of his fellow prisoners, but usually worked in his favor. For those without such talents or the focus to find new passions or at least new distractions, nearby Pollsmor Prison, former home of Nelson Mandela, is ready to take in those young men who prove too much for the juvenile system. Here graffiti on the train from central Cape Town to the detention center reads: "I'm losing my friends in a hurry… They relocating to the cemetery!!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733982359-CGMLS24BHYJZZ6MI0KB2/bushra_yip-2.jpg Young and In Prison The center is almost completely empty while the boys are in classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733995202-K21JOR8X30U91OI13B3Q/bushra_yip-3.jpg Young and In Prison A boy walks to his room in the foreground as the cooks rest between meals at a youth detention center in Cape Town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734008649-JQGLSW08PVZOVRGMIKDV/bushra_yip-4.jpg Young and In Prison The detention center is located on an abandoned apartheid-era military base. Air raid sirens mark the beginning and end of their classes and activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734010916-FWPJUAOHOHHDP3IGN3UK/bushra_yip-5.jpg Young and In Prison Western Cape Province, where the detention center is located, offers an array of forests, mountains and beaches, a stark contrast to the detention center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734020672-5P5KC0C6SV1ECDZSAZ8Z/bushra_yip-6.jpg Young and In Prison Donated jerseys allow the boys to play soccer in even better equipment than they would on the outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734028271-M5Z1ZOPKP9EDEXW4RZH6/bushra_yip-7.jpg Young and In Prison As in 'real' prison, much of the day is empty and unstructured. The boys enjoy working out to break the monotony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734041341-KAUPCYW6UFNCFE80JEUE/bushra_yip-8.jpg Young and In Prison Graffiti chronicles one child's four-year stay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734038629-QO1U61QN38VK7BBWUFIR/bushra_yip-9.jpg Young and In Prison A boy tires of another's teasing and prepares to fight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734050468-6R5NK9VFD10GNZA9PDJD/bushra_yip-10.jpg Young and In Prison Three boys pose for a portrait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734045113-NZNKOVFV0UK1LT5D07UT/bushra_yip-11.jpg Young and In Prison A resident takes advantage of higher ground to gaze at the world beyond the compound's gates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734080449-UA23F6KPWYIZ546C68Y8/bushra_yip-12.jpg Young and In Prison The "transit room" where boys who have broken rules, ranging from smoking weed and crystal meth ("tic") to attempting suicide, are kept until they're deemed ready to join the group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734083183-0Q56YBSR1RVPDAG8W0TW/bushra_yip-13.jpg Young and In Prison Between the rows of dormitories, or hostels, that house the boys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734107237-6OAYPSW7DUZDKSS1VWZP/bushra_yip-14.jpg Young and In Prison Lining up between activities allows staff to keep track of the boys and keep order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734112506-OT2L3GYY845TQV3XSKYO/bushra_yip-15.jpg Young and In Prison The boys at the detention center range in age from 11 to 17 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734127159-137FR3V6L8RLANLEFJYO/bushra_yip-16.jpg Young and In Prison One of the boys is training to be an opera singer, spending one day a week taking classes at a nearby university. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734129188-2WUL0OAHKHOTTBUE4I03/bushra_yip-17.jpg Young and In Prison In Western Cape Province, Coloureds make up a plurality of the population, and so also dominate its criminal justice system. http://shadibushra.com/sudan-votes daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731899823-M3E3WGXWPYHKOOEBMEMK/bushra_sudanvote-1.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes - (Some of) Sudan Votes In April of 2015, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir moved to extend his quarter-century of rule by holding presidential and parliamentary elections even after a broad opposition boycott left no doubt as to the polls' legitimacy. The boycott was coupled with widespread apathy from voters, leading to a historically low turnout and prompting authorities to extend voting by an extra day in the hope of boosting the turnout. While many voters didn't even know where to vote, if they'd wanted to, those few that made it to polls made clear that Bashir remained their preferred choice even after a tumultuous 25 years in power that have included the imposition of Western sanctions, the genocide in Darfur, the loss of one-third of the country and most of its oil revenues, a resulting economic freefall, and Sudan's general estrangement from the international community. Despite all of these setbacks, voters looked nearby to Libya, Syria and Yemen and decided they simply could not risk changing leaders at this point, lest the country fall into the same chaos. Hammering home the unusual influence of regional politics on voters' decisions, Bashir announced just before the elections that it would support a Saudi-led military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Khartoum's unexpected turn against Iran, which in recent years had been a close regional ally, was interpreted as a move to extract aid and investment from the wealthy Gulf states who saw Iran as their primary adversary. As if to emphasize to voters that Bashir was moving to pull Sudan out of its regional isolation and economic tailspin, the Saudi ambassador in Khartoum said during the middle of polling that his country would be making "huge" investments in Sudan's agriculture sector. Sudan and Saudi Arabia denied the support for the Yemen campaign had anything to do with economic assistance. Months after the elections were over and Bashir declared the winner with over 94 percent of the vote, a Sudanese official said that Saudi Arabia had deposited $1 billion in the Sudanese central bank over the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731892238-VQ81D1ZEKZKDACSLJ9G0/bushra_sudanvote-2.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir after voting in presidential and parliamentary polls, in Khartoum. He extended his quarter-century of rule with 94 percent of the vote, authorities said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731903643-W8NDIYL9M6IEQSPMUY60/bushra_sudanvote-3.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Abdelaziz al-Hassan, who says he will vote to extend the 25-year rule of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress Party in national elections. "I always stand with the strong. The rest of them you haven't even seen their faces or their names before. Why vote for someone new and weak when this government is going to fix relations with Saudi, bring some Gulf money in. Last time we stood against the Saudis when we supported Iraq (in the first Gulf war), nothing came of it. This time in Yemen we know to be on the side of the strong." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731912845-T4OT6YCNS055S0XKI6RR/bushra_sudanvote-4.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes A woman walks into a school to vote during Sudan's elections, which saw low turnout amid an opposition boycott and widespread political apathy, driven by a sense among voters that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in power since 1989, won with over 94 percent of the vote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731919182-N8E9QWOPEAENGPA8K2PF/bushra_sudanvote-5.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Farouk Abu Issa, one of two prominent Sudanese opposition leaders freed without explanation days before national elections, at his home with family and supporters in Khartoum, Sudan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731929766-EG7KO9BBCHTCEOSGKWL1/bushra_sudanvote-6.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Police and elections officials at a school being used as a polling station in Khartoum, Sudan, April 13, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731936825-ERXERQ5LSKVSDQM2NPQV/bushra_sudanvote-7.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Voters look for their voting information at a polling station in Khartoum, as two officials with the opposition Democratic Unionist Party, one of a handful of opposition parties taking place in the largely boycotted elections, walk in to monitor the voting. "President Bashir is going to win despite the fact that many people who do not agree with him. He is the only candidate who has an opportunity to win," Sami Abdullah, in white, said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731955824-D8GSX2X0DF38TRYRZBKE/bushra_sudanvote-8.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes A tent, provided by the ruling National Congress Party, where voters could eat, drink and rest, outside of a polling station in Khartoum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731964273-WY6GGYWPHFHD5CQ47Y3R/bushra_sudanvote-9.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes An Umma Party member breaks down as he recalls a conversation with activist Sandra Farouk Kadouda on April 12, the night she disappeared in what family and friends say was an abduction by state security services. The government denied any role in her disappearance. She was found badly beaten on April 15. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731989437-VUWSCJAVSIFVOWC6POAL/bushra_sudanvote-10.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes The Saudi ambassador speaks to Sudanese journalists at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, April, 14, 2015, during national elections where regional politics played a disproportionate role. The popularity of President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress party was boosted by expectations of Gulf economic aid following Khartoum's pledge of support to the Saudi-led military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. "There will be new investments in the agriculture sector, and they will be huge investments. We hope Sudan will be ready for this," Ambassador Faisal bin Hamed al-Mualla told journalists on the second day of the April polls. Riyadh and Khartoum both deny any financial support is linked to the Yemen campaign. Sudan's central bank received $1 billion in July and August from Saudi Arabia, Khartoum later said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731996838-EMSQJ02URYDNUKCKJZ7D/bushra_sudanvote-11.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes A woman casts her ballot while an elections worker helps an old man vote, at a school being used as a polling station in Khartoum, hours before the close of national polls, which authorities extended by a day after low turnout on the initial three days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733842789-M5253CFBHMVQCV5P196V/bushra_sudanvote-12.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Elections workers move boxes full of cast ballots after the close of national polls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733839961-6JDCA4LZT94QJ8NVF8WQ/bushra_sudanvote-13.jpg (Some of) Sudan Votes Elections workers seal and mark the boxes of ballots after the close of polling in Sudan's presidential and parliamentary elections http://shadibushra.com/london-through-the-lens daily 0.75 2016-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733864387-I31RTJZIY3P1DTW6A1PI/bushra_london-1.jpg London Through the Lens - London, Through My Lens I was working full time as a wire reporter while I was in London and chafed at the long hours I had to spend in an office while life moved at a dizzying pace on the streets below. Trying to find a balance, I would always keep my camera and a fast 50mm lens on me - on the way to and from work, heading to meetings and interviews, and during late-night walks, I would prowl the streets looking for interesting images that offered a glimpse at some less-seen parts of London. Making photographs became an outlet as I became more and more frustrated at parts of my job, and at what I perceived to be the insufferably slow pace that my dreams and ambitions writ large were realizing themselves. In retrospect, I am grateful for the career opportunities I had then, but even more so for the unlikely relationships and overdue self-growth that was catalyzed by my being alone, disconnected, and frustrated. The truth is, if I had felt fulfilled I probably wouldn't have gone to such trouble to find interesting pictures. Police arrest a drunk man in Kilburn, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733865526-L9ICZRTT4AJVL07W05CW/bushra_london-2.jpg London Through the Lens At the Thomson Reuters Christmas party https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733872507-BHYCM9PSZOIFF0O4IQQK/bushra_london-3.jpg London Through the Lens Streaking man exiting a Tube station in London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733881681-U2RRP6SKK34PSIY0EVNE/bushra_london-4.jpg London Through the Lens Taxidermist's shop in Islington, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733881254-VW2E77O494Z91JTVOVAO/bushra_london-5.jpg London Through the Lens A Lamborghini and its driver in London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733892412-LCR92RLCNE136AQKNJSO/bushra_london-6.jpg London Through the Lens Outside a random house party in Islington, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733932338-BIBXZ64ETAZ77QRH95AM/bushra_london-7.jpg London Through the Lens A fox in Islington, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733940361-KNW4SKX29I52M2J7JQ10/bushra_london-8.jpg London Through the Lens British-Tamil protestors demonstrate outside the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. Many Tamils opposed Sri Lanka hosting the 2013 summit of the Commonwealth, accusing the government of rights violations over the course of a 23-year civil war that ended in 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733942467-TTNC3E93CCBOOGCFRYWH/bushra_london-9.jpg London Through the Lens A jeweller talks to customers somewhere near Green Park, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733969021-PL3UFEEVTCK9M0M47ZI0/bushra_london-10.jpg London Through the Lens Water display at Canary Wharf, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733981212-7DKEDZWL76ZTEUBESKDZ/bushra_london-11.jpg London Through the Lens London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733977843-7595HHMOMNRF5OTKWCTK/bushra_london-12.jpg London Through the Lens Violinist Haig Papazian, and lead singer Hamed Sinno of the Lebanese alternative-rock band Mashrou’ Leila, at their first performance in London at The Garage on October 08, 2013. (Reuters/Shadi Bushra) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734002235-CDPLFKBTQAGNBCK1EV3C/bushra_london-13.jpg London Through the Lens Max Clifford, Britain's best-known celebrity publicist who once represented Simon Cowell and Muhammad Ali, leaves Southwark Crown Court in London October 4, 2013. Clifford pleaded not guilty to 11 charges of indecently assaulting teenage girls at this hearing. He was later convicted on eight of those counts and sentenced to eight years in prison. http://shadibushra.com/reporting daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482151996153-JYMLBPB2KKYYBEYBZ7XG/folio_sudanvote-10.jpg Reporting The Saudi ambassador to Sudan hosts local media and officials on the second day of polling to praise Sudan's involvement in the Yemen campaign and insist that Saudi aid is not contingent on Khartoum's decision to support the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443165542898-4GOQ3S0ZTO8XS7OE42IW/image-asset.jpeg Reporting (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443165739831-BA4L5XU7B0C6SLCBMTNC/image-asset.jpeg Reporting (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674360307-QA2MPIU0Z03EFPQEWH8W/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-1.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674355712-B9EWM7GHKM79HLAT1JLS/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-2.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674378609-Y71HUHMQSG1Z5Y9IH7FO/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-3.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674369572-REAYPBR5H14627XAA2XK/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-4.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674393345-P457WUJJ3OY15WBDM5OI/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-5.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674405441-REIZAB916BOOJG58TESS/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-6.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674476221-N86BBQMPBXNYRPVIOFMV/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-7.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674529595-9YRLE80FSRXODHJ211XN/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-8.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674593724-TPZ7LP7NS2R6IZU6D1SH/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-9.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674599180-H0IDEP86MMI7AEFIWI9H/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-10.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674740478-XJWG0HBBFV2B5QZKPFTS/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-11.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674837666-7I30I0CREX8K6EDD3XP5/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-12.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674859529-2XLYSIQ17U561IXPUJIQ/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-13.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674963152-KVC8Y066AVGISFS8T9GL/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-14.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674911777-GY91P9YFHUMOFYFIOBGK/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-15.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674990158-2RKFJXWG8XZSET2OMZ1H/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-16.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675079052-5JUHF8B8NAXX7MG6H4J4/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-17.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675101572-YPKDKBIBYSWX5E621GH6/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-18.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675185093-5FCLWJ9JJEIC2DSDAVMU/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-19.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675219457-QYKJOKPN37AUPT1R1JMW/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-20.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443155612698-JW20W6I4F5U3Q2KCR09K/image-asset.jpeg Reporting (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731899823-M3E3WGXWPYHKOOEBMEMK/bushra_sudanvote-1.jpg Reporting - (Some of) Sudan Votes In April of 2015, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir moved to extend his quarter-century of rule by holding presidential and parliamentary elections even after a broad opposition boycott left no doubt as to the polls' legitimacy. The boycott was coupled with widespread apathy from voters, leading to a historically low turnout and prompting authorities to extend voting by an extra day in the hope of boosting the turnout. While many voters didn't even know where to vote, if they'd wanted to, those few that made it to polls made clear that Bashir remained their preferred choice even after a tumultuous 25 years in power that have included the imposition of Western sanctions, the genocide in Darfur, the loss of one-third of the country and most of its oil revenues, a resulting economic freefall, and Sudan's general estrangement from the international community. Despite all of these setbacks, voters looked nearby to Libya, Syria and Yemen and decided they simply could not risk changing leaders at this point, lest the country fall into the same chaos. Hammering home the unusual influence of regional politics on voters' decisions, Bashir announced just before the elections that it would support a Saudi-led military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Khartoum's unexpected turn against Iran, which in recent years had been a close regional ally, was interpreted as a move to extract aid and investment from the wealthy Gulf states who saw Iran as their primary adversary. As if to emphasize to voters that Bashir was moving to pull Sudan out of its regional isolation and economic tailspin, the Saudi ambassador in Khartoum said during the middle of polling that his country would be making "huge" investments in Sudan's agriculture sector. Sudan and Saudi Arabia denied the support for the Yemen campaign had anything to do with economic assistance. Months after the elections were over and Bashir declared the winner with over 94 percent of the vote, a Sudanese official said that Saudi Arabia had deposited $1 billion in the Sudanese central bank over the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731892238-VQ81D1ZEKZKDACSLJ9G0/bushra_sudanvote-2.jpg Reporting Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir after voting in presidential and parliamentary polls, in Khartoum. He extended his quarter-century of rule with 94 percent of the vote, authorities said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731903643-W8NDIYL9M6IEQSPMUY60/bushra_sudanvote-3.jpg Reporting Abdelaziz al-Hassan, who says he will vote to extend the 25-year rule of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress Party in national elections. "I always stand with the strong. The rest of them you haven't even seen their faces or their names before. Why vote for someone new and weak when this government is going to fix relations with Saudi, bring some Gulf money in. Last time we stood against the Saudis when we supported Iraq (in the first Gulf war), nothing came of it. This time in Yemen we know to be on the side of the strong." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731912845-T4OT6YCNS055S0XKI6RR/bushra_sudanvote-4.jpg Reporting A woman walks into a school to vote during Sudan's elections, which saw low turnout amid an opposition boycott and widespread political apathy, driven by a sense among voters that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in power since 1989, won with over 94 percent of the vote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731919182-N8E9QWOPEAENGPA8K2PF/bushra_sudanvote-5.jpg Reporting Farouk Abu Issa, one of two prominent Sudanese opposition leaders freed without explanation days before national elections, at his home with family and supporters in Khartoum, Sudan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731929766-EG7KO9BBCHTCEOSGKWL1/bushra_sudanvote-6.jpg Reporting Police and elections officials at a school being used as a polling station in Khartoum, Sudan, April 13, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731936825-ERXERQ5LSKVSDQM2NPQV/bushra_sudanvote-7.jpg Reporting Voters look for their voting information at a polling station in Khartoum, as two officials with the opposition Democratic Unionist Party, one of a handful of opposition parties taking place in the largely boycotted elections, walk in to monitor the voting. "President Bashir is going to win despite the fact that many people who do not agree with him. He is the only candidate who has an opportunity to win," Sami Abdullah, in white, said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731955824-D8GSX2X0DF38TRYRZBKE/bushra_sudanvote-8.jpg Reporting A tent, provided by the ruling National Congress Party, where voters could eat, drink and rest, outside of a polling station in Khartoum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731964273-WY6GGYWPHFHD5CQ47Y3R/bushra_sudanvote-9.jpg Reporting An Umma Party member breaks down as he recalls a conversation with activist Sandra Farouk Kadouda on April 12, the night she disappeared in what family and friends say was an abduction by state security services. The government denied any role in her disappearance. She was found badly beaten on April 15. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731989437-VUWSCJAVSIFVOWC6POAL/bushra_sudanvote-10.jpg Reporting The Saudi ambassador speaks to Sudanese journalists at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, April, 14, 2015, during national elections where regional politics played a disproportionate role. The popularity of President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress party was boosted by expectations of Gulf economic aid following Khartoum's pledge of support to the Saudi-led military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. "There will be new investments in the agriculture sector, and they will be huge investments. We hope Sudan will be ready for this," Ambassador Faisal bin Hamed al-Mualla told journalists on the second day of the April polls. Riyadh and Khartoum both deny any financial support is linked to the Yemen campaign. Sudan's central bank received $1 billion in July and August from Saudi Arabia, Khartoum later said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731996838-EMSQJ02URYDNUKCKJZ7D/bushra_sudanvote-11.jpg Reporting A woman casts her ballot while an elections worker helps an old man vote, at a school being used as a polling station in Khartoum, hours before the close of national polls, which authorities extended by a day after low turnout on the initial three days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733842789-M5253CFBHMVQCV5P196V/bushra_sudanvote-12.jpg Reporting Elections workers move boxes full of cast ballots after the close of national polls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481733839961-6JDCA4LZT94QJ8NVF8WQ/bushra_sudanvote-13.jpg Reporting Elections workers seal and mark the boxes of ballots after the close of polling in Sudan's presidential and parliamentary elections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443155369870-EGMVFKH0U45P6W9EP1VD/Bushra_AlJazeera2-6.jpg Reporting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443155493923-YOAF0VT6UAV3I3ZTJAUV/Bushra_AlJazeera2-3.jpg Reporting http://shadibushra.com/initiative-stories daily 0.75 2015-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443166196984-9Z7UAGMF0BSGEEN2WRKT/image-asset.jpeg Initiative Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443159377209-R8SD0GAMS1GCK62XQWX2/folioegypt-11.jpg Initiative Stories (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443166220970-TXAFWYDD9E719H9U0RXB/folio_sudanvote-10.jpg Initiative Stories http://shadibushra.com/spot-news daily 0.75 2015-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443157860994-CVA483BD26C1IZP6OIJD/image-asset.jpeg Breaking News (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443158181606-3QY6W6S2D1OD8IKHUD3N/image-asset.jpeg Breaking News (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443157534093-C1SK1U1H5I9GOIYR4QAI/folioegypt-10.jpg Breaking News (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) http://shadibushra.com/tourism-in-egypt daily 0.75 2016-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114372258-VRF4MR9HP6SU518KCUR5/bushra_sharmtourism-1-2.jpg Tourism in Egypt - Egypt's Dying Tourism Trade Three months before I met him, Sobhi Osman quit his job at a clothing factory, said goodbye to his family and friends in Ismailia and boarded a bus to Sharm el-Sheikh. His hometown friends who had earlier made the move to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt’s premier destination for sun-and-surf tourism, were imploring him to come. They insisted that tourism at the Red Sea resort town was strong again as the political turmoil that for years had kept foreigners away from Egypt began to subside. Though he didn’t even have a job yet, Osman spent most of the six hour bus ride from Ismailia thinking about what he would do with the windfall he hoped to earn from working at one of the nearly two hundred hotels in Sharm el-Sheikh. Soon after arriving in the glitzy seaside town full of Russian, British and other European tourists, Osman landed a job at the “Sharming Inn” hotel. He made making a third more money than he did at his last job, where he sewed logos such as Nike, Puma, and Adidas on counterfeit brand-name shirts at a clothing store in Ismailia. Since the hotel provided him with free food and board in Sharm el-Sheikh, he could send most of the money home and begin saving for marriage. He was making progress towards the same dream of financial stability and independence that pulls many young Egyptians from their homes and into a sector that at its height employed xx million Egyptians. Then a Russian passenger plane leaving Sharm el-Sheikh was brought down by a bomb believed to have been planted by the local branch of Islamic State, killing over two hundred tourists on board and prompting a panic among foreigners in Sharm el-Sheikh, which until then had been considered one of the safest areas in Egypt. Even after some countries stopped flights to Sharm and began airlifting their citizens home in response to fears that Islamic extremists had penetrated the garrisoned resort town, Sobhi remained optimistic. “I hear about tourists leaving Sharm, but thankfully we’ve still had work since then,” he said outside of his hotel-provided apartment building nine days after the crash. “Some will leave and some will stay, and eventually most will come back. Tourists returned after the (2011) revolution, they’ll come back again.” Two days later, he called me from Sharm el-Sheikh’s bus station, where he was about to begin a decidedly less hopeful trip than the journey he undertook three months ago. The Sharming Inn had told him that there was no more work for the month now that most of its guests had checked out and cancelled future bookings. “They said they would call us next month if they needed us,” he said, though the dejection palpable over the line suggested this wasn’t likely. So, again, he packed some of the bags he’d brought three months ago and boarded a bus, this time going back to Ismailia as an early casualty of a tourism crisis that is likely toget much worse before it gets better. Here a mountain is seen across the Red Sea from a luxury hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114319356-JO4455Y8HYBTH51VWGXV/bushra_sharmtourism-2.jpg Tourism in Egypt Men wait for a bus near a billboard in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114315635-28Z52B33GMNZJL2CAJNV/bushra_sharmtourism-3.jpg Tourism in Egypt A plane takes off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on November 7, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114312962-SZX3X4QUVCHCBD1MLNW5/bushra_sharmtourism-4.jpg Tourism in Egypt A motor pumps groundwater from a well behind a hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 7, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114304916-R856214HPB1C5TU8I2NX/bushra_sharmtourism-5.jpg Tourism in Egypt At the airport, a taxi driver says no one is arriving to the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, which is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114313189-2JPJN5WR93KTNWW3W4IO/bushra_sharmtourism-6.jpg Tourism in Egypt The empty boardwalk of Neema Bay, usually a top tourist attraction in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 8, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114301986-DB7CI8MEH7HSKUMLCF3O/bushra_sharmtourism-7.jpg Tourism in Egypt Truck drivers from al-Saeed, or Upper Egypt, who live in Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have migrated from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry. One of the drivers had served with an international peacekeeping force in Kadugli, Sudan, and was worried that a persistent anti-government insurgency would hurt Egypt's economy like it did Sudan's. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114294895-T4WP0QB38OX11L29W8HN/bushra_sharmtourism-8.jpg Tourism in Egypt A view of improvised housing and tour buses under the sahdow of the Heavenly Cathedral in Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have traveled from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114289924-JYBCMSTNGP2QNJTH2L16/bushra_sharmtourism-9.jpg Tourism in Egypt Construction workers who said they had been told they may have to stop construction on a building for housing hotel workers in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 9, 2015. The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114284822-EZSJBJ4V1PIHUSKSKB65/bushra_sharmtourism-11.jpg Tourism in Egypt Drivers wait for work outside the hotel-provided housing near Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have traveled from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry.The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114268376-8B00DGBYAO25VPQGH69N/bushra_sharmtourism-10.jpg Tourism in Egypt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482114268698-KU177UWT138Y0FHJ75M0/bushra_sharmtourism-12.jpg Tourism in Egypt A vendor tastes his food in Hay al-Noor, a mostly working-class district of Sharm el-Sheikh that is home to many Egyptians who have traveled from other parts of the country in search of opportunities in the tourism industry.The resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is bracing for a major hit to its key tourism sector as speculation grows that a bomb was the reason a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people on board, after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport on October 31, 2015. http://shadibushra.com/bernie-sanders-visits-minnesota daily 0.75 2016-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734060217-FDP6KG4U8IKDZJJ2ORBX/bushra_bernieMN-1.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota - Bernie Sanders at the Black America Forum In the heat of the 2016 primary season, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was seeking avenues through which to push his message of economic populism to minority communities, which tended to tilt towards Hillary Clinton. So on a frigid day in February, Sanders spoke at a town hall in Minneapolis convened by Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) and other community organizing groups. The question was how Sanders' economics would specifically address the needs of black, Latino, and other marginalized communities. Sanders' answer was, in a nutshell, that a more fair economy would help everyone, including blacks and Latinos who were make up a disproportionate amount of the working poor. While some accepted this, others kept pushing for his stance on minority-specific programs and even the controversial issue of reparations for the descendants of slaves. An audience member also brought up the topic of the disenfranchisement of convicted felons, while another audience member demanded that Native Americans be included more in conversations like these. It made for a boisterous conversation that seemed to careen from Sanders-friendly to Sanders-hostile on a dime. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was also in Minnesota, but would not be making any public appearances. Instead, she would spend the evening in St. Paul at a big-dollar fundraiser. That, to one organizer, was the difference between Clinton and Sanders - one went to the people, the other went to the money. Here Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who were a critical bloc in the following contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734056643-F5MEXPENL7BJKGLQM8M1/bushra_bernieMN-2.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, squinted into the lights at the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734069562-LQ65UVQRF4NP8QZJ5WJ0/bushra_bernieMN-3.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734099420-D1QYVWSGD3THYZYG5T1B/bushra_bernieMN-4.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota A diverse audience of activists, Sanders supporters, and others filled the gymnasium at Patrick Henry High School for the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734101122-P6FK7VM0O6LRPJIPTE7L/bushra_bernieMN-5.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota The gymnasium of Patrick Henry High School, where the Black America Forum was held. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734125827-62MYO4LX64LOTT8Z4Y6U/bushra_bernieMN-6.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota A diverse audience of activists and potential voters listens to Bernie Sanders answer a question at the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734124439-W95OWLQM66SP4IO7PX7W/bushra_bernieMN-7.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota Jason Sole, a felon who had gone on to earn a doctorate, asked Bernie Sanders what he would do for disenfranchised ex-convicts like himself.; Sanders replied that he believed voting rights should not be taken away from felons. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734133596-N0Z3D3Q47ZQY35CBV37E/bushra_bernieMN-8.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota Clyde Bellecourt, a 79-year-old Native American activist asked a five-minute-long question about the U.S. government honoring past treaties with Native Americans, which Bernie Sanders answered briefly before leaving to attend a fundraising dinner in neighboring St. Paul. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734134439-I348FW0DLYUB2FMWRL5H/bushra_bernieMN-9.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481734137750-AMG27GEREL7HF0XPMSFN/bushra_bernieMN-10.jpg Bernie Sanders Visits Minnesota Bernie Sanders delivers a campaign speech during his opening remarks before a panel of African-American activists and an audience of potential voters during the Black America Forum. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president, attended the Black America Forum, sponsored by MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change at Patrick Henry High School in the largely African-American neighborhood of North Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, February 12, 2016. After beating Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the week, Sen. Sanders began campaigning in earnest for minority voters, who will be crucial in the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina. http://shadibushra.com/multimedia daily 0.75 2018-04-08 http://shadibushra.com/reporting-2 daily 0.75 2021-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1482151996153-JYMLBPB2KKYYBEYBZ7XG/folio_sudanvote-10.jpg Reporting (Copy) The Saudi ambassador to Sudan hosts local media and officials on the second day of polling to praise Sudan's involvement in the Yemen campaign and insist that Saudi aid is not contingent on Khartoum's decision to support the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443165542898-4GOQ3S0ZTO8XS7OE42IW/image-asset.jpeg Reporting (Copy) (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443165739831-BA4L5XU7B0C6SLCBMTNC/image-asset.jpeg Reporting (Copy) (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674360307-QA2MPIU0Z03EFPQEWH8W/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-1.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674355712-B9EWM7GHKM79HLAT1JLS/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-2.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674378609-Y71HUHMQSG1Z5Y9IH7FO/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-3.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674369572-REAYPBR5H14627XAA2XK/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-4.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674393345-P457WUJJ3OY15WBDM5OI/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-5.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674405441-REIZAB916BOOJG58TESS/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-6.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674476221-N86BBQMPBXNYRPVIOFMV/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-7.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674529595-9YRLE80FSRXODHJ211XN/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-8.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674593724-TPZ7LP7NS2R6IZU6D1SH/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-9.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674599180-H0IDEP86MMI7AEFIWI9H/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-10.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674740478-XJWG0HBBFV2B5QZKPFTS/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-11.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674837666-7I30I0CREX8K6EDD3XP5/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-12.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674859529-2XLYSIQ17U561IXPUJIQ/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-13.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674963152-KVC8Y066AVGISFS8T9GL/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-14.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674911777-GY91P9YFHUMOFYFIOBGK/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-15.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481674990158-2RKFJXWG8XZSET2OMZ1H/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-16.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675079052-5JUHF8B8NAXX7MG6H4J4/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-17.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675101572-YPKDKBIBYSWX5E621GH6/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-18.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675185093-5FCLWJ9JJEIC2DSDAVMU/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-19.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481675219457-QYKJOKPN37AUPT1R1JMW/bushra_archive_egyptassassination-20.jpg Reporting (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1443155612698-JW20W6I4F5U3Q2KCR09K/image-asset.jpeg Reporting (Copy) (Shadi Bushra/Reuters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731899823-M3E3WGXWPYHKOOEBMEMK/bushra_sudanvote-1.jpg Reporting (Copy) - (Some of) Sudan Votes In April of 2015, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir moved to extend his quarter-century of rule by holding presidential and parliamentary elections even after a broad opposition boycott left no doubt as to the polls' legitimacy. The boycott was coupled with widespread apathy from voters, leading to a historically low turnout and prompting authorities to extend voting by an extra day in the hope of boosting the turnout. While many voters didn't even know where to vote, if they'd wanted to, those few that made it to polls made clear that Bashir remained their preferred choice even after a tumultuous 25 years in power that have included the imposition of Western sanctions, the genocide in Darfur, the loss of one-third of the country and most of its oil revenues, a resulting economic freefall, and Sudan's general estrangement from the international community. Despite all of these setbacks, voters looked nearby to Libya, Syria and Yemen and decided they simply could not risk changing leaders at this point, lest the country fall into the same chaos. Hammering home the unusual influence of regional politics on voters' decisions, Bashir announced just before the elections that it would support a Saudi-led military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Khartoum's unexpected turn against Iran, which in recent years had been a close regional ally, was interpreted as a move to extract aid and investment from the wealthy Gulf states who saw Iran as their primary adversary. As if to emphasize to voters that Bashir was moving to pull Sudan out of its regional isolation and economic tailspin, the Saudi ambassador in Khartoum said during the middle of polling that his country would be making "huge" investments in Sudan's agriculture sector. Sudan and Saudi Arabia denied the support for the Yemen campaign had anything to do with economic assistance. Months after the elections were over and Bashir declared the winner with over 94 percent of the vote, a Sudanese official said that Saudi Arabia had deposited $1 billion in the Sudanese central bank over the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731892238-VQ81D1ZEKZKDACSLJ9G0/bushra_sudanvote-2.jpg Reporting (Copy) Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir after voting in presidential and parliamentary polls, in Khartoum. He extended his quarter-century of rule with 94 percent of the vote, authorities said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731903643-W8NDIYL9M6IEQSPMUY60/bushra_sudanvote-3.jpg Reporting (Copy) Abdelaziz al-Hassan, who says he will vote to extend the 25-year rule of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress Party in national elections. "I always stand with the strong. The rest of them you haven't even seen their faces or their names before. Why vote for someone new and weak when this government is going to fix relations with Saudi, bring some Gulf money in. Last time we stood against the Saudis when we supported Iraq (in the first Gulf war), nothing came of it. This time in Yemen we know to be on the side of the strong." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731912845-T4OT6YCNS055S0XKI6RR/bushra_sudanvote-4.jpg Reporting (Copy) A woman walks into a school to vote during Sudan's elections, which saw low turnout amid an opposition boycott and widespread political apathy, driven by a sense among voters that the outcome was a foregone conclusion. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in power since 1989, won with over 94 percent of the vote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731919182-N8E9QWOPEAENGPA8K2PF/bushra_sudanvote-5.jpg Reporting (Copy) Farouk Abu Issa, one of two prominent Sudanese opposition leaders freed without explanation days before national elections, at his home with family and supporters in Khartoum, Sudan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731929766-EG7KO9BBCHTCEOSGKWL1/bushra_sudanvote-6.jpg Reporting (Copy) Police and elections officials at a school being used as a polling station in Khartoum, Sudan, April 13, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731936825-ERXERQ5LSKVSDQM2NPQV/bushra_sudanvote-7.jpg Reporting (Copy) Voters look for their voting information at a polling station in Khartoum, as two officials with the opposition Democratic Unionist Party, one of a handful of opposition parties taking place in the largely boycotted elections, walk in to monitor the voting. "President Bashir is going to win despite the fact that many people who do not agree with him. He is the only candidate who has an opportunity to win," Sami Abdullah, in white, said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731955824-D8GSX2X0DF38TRYRZBKE/bushra_sudanvote-8.jpg Reporting (Copy) A tent, provided by the ruling National Congress Party, where voters could eat, drink and rest, outside of a polling station in Khartoum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731964273-WY6GGYWPHFHD5CQ47Y3R/bushra_sudanvote-9.jpg Reporting (Copy) An Umma Party member breaks down as he recalls a conversation with activist Sandra Farouk Kadouda on April 12, the night she disappeared in what family and friends say was an abduction by state security services. The government denied any role in her disappearance. She was found badly beaten on April 15. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/533d594ce4b0b65c534fd3b8/1481731989437-VUWSCJAVSIFVOWC6POAL/bushra_sudanvote-10.jpg Reporting (Copy) The Saudi ambassador speaks to Sudanese journalists at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, April, 14, 2015, during national elections where regional politics played a disproportionate role. The popularity of President Omar al-Bashir and his ruling National Congress party was boosted by expectations of Gulf economic aid following Khartoum's pledge of support to the Saudi-led military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. "There will be new investments in the agriculture sector, and they will be huge investments. We hope Sudan will be ready for this," Ambassador Faisal bin Hamed al-Mualla told journalists on the second day of the April polls. Riyadh and Khartoum both deny any financial support is linked to the Yemen campaign. 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