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GROUNDTRUTH: At Work, Play and War In the Third World
GROUNDTRUTH At Work Play and War In the Third World Author:Ben Barber Ben Barber visited the third world after college, in the late 1960s and 1970s, as a poet and a traveler from Morocco to India. He studied journalism and returned to the third world in 1980 as a reporter and photographer for The Observer, USA Today, and other papers. Editors pushed him to report on war, disease, conflict, hunger, refugees, and en... more »dless tragedy. But he found another side: decent, hard-working, loving, and generous people from Marrakesh to Cairo to Jerusalem to Teheran to Kabul and beyond.This book captures, through Barber's photos and short stories, the deeper streams of life flowing in countries where the future of our planet is being written. All who seek to avoid future conflicts and to understand these countries will enjoy this book.Ben Barber has been a foreign correspondent for twenty-three years. His articles and photos have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Observer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Salon.com, and other publications. From 1994 to 2002 he was State Department bureau chief for The Washington Times. From 2002 to 2010 he was senior writer for the US Agency for International Development where he was editor in chief of the USAID newspaper FrontLines. He is currently a consultant on international development communications and a columnist for McClatchy newspapers.« less