CONTRIBUTORS//
Jon Lee Anderson is the author of a book about Che Guevara and a recent collection of dispatches from Afghanistan during the U.S.-led war. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
Bruce Benderson is the author of two books of fiction about the urban underworld. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, nest, and other publications. He is writing a memoir about an extended stay in Romania.
John Caserta has designed and art-directed interactive stories for the Chicago Tribune Online Edition, The New York Times on the Web, National Geographic, Quokka Sports and NBCOlympics.com. He is an MFA candidate at Yale University.
Mohamad Fahim Dashty worked as a reporter in Afghanistan during the mid-1990s and later founded a film company that documented the life of Ahmad Shah Massoud. He serves as chief editor of Kabul Weekly, a multi-lingual newspaper in Afghanistan's capitol.
Julia Elliot has co-written a feature film shot in Nepal and Tibet, co-written and co-produced a documentary film about the Bowery, and helped produce two PBS series. She is an independent radio producer in New York City.
Larry Goodson is the author of several books, including a recent analysis of Afghanistan's 23-year war. He is the director of Middle East Studies at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Carrie Golus has written fiction- and nonfiction-comics since 1998. Her work has appeared in New City, an alternative weekly in Chicago, and The Stranger, an alternative weekly in Seattle. She is working on her first novel.
Hali Jilani regularly returns to her native Afghanistan to research human rights, health care, education, democracy, the plight of women, and land mines. She is a counter-terrorism consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice and consults for the Department of Defense and Congress. She chairs the Asian Affairs Task Force of the United Nations Association.
Albert Maysles, along with his brother, David, pioneered the film method known as direct cinema, a nonfiction variation on France's cinema vérité. The Maysles studio has produced dozens of pieces, including an Oscar-nominated film about the Mississippi Delta. He is working on a film about a Russian Jew who in 1913 was wrongfully charged with the ritualistic slaying of a Christian boy.
Philip Maysles is an artist whose work has been shown at galleries in Providence and Milwaukee. He is based in San Francisco.
Simon Norfolk has published a book of photographs that document landscapes left behind after genocide, and another on Afghan landscapes after the fall of the Taliban. He is working on a project about North America's indigenous people.
Lois Raimondo covered Asia as a writer and photojournalist for 12 years during the 1980s and 1990s, including two years in Dharamsala, India. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Life magazine, and other publications. She is a staff photographer at the Washington Post.
Ami Vitale is a freelance photographer whose work from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa has appeared in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times. She is based in New Dehli, India.
Patrick Welch has painted comics since 1998, and his work has been shown at galleries in New York and Chicago. He teaches drawing and storytelling at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago.
Sarah Wolozin has co-produced a documentary for the History Channel and worked on a public-television series. She is producing one hour of an upcoming, three-part PBS series that examines America's education system.
EDITORS//
John Gravois is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.
Tim Heffernan is a freelance writer in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Arian Mouj Sharifi is a producer for ABC News in Kabul.
PRODUCERS//
Chris Burke is a freelance film editor in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Sean Cole is a field producer for WBUR radio in Boston.
Benjamin Healy is a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly in Boston.
Anne Jensen is a junior copy editor at Ladies' Home Journal in New York City.
John Lee is a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune.
Elaine Richardson is a senior editor at Naylor Publications in Gainsville, Flordia.
PROMOTION//
Gwyneth Fries is a student at Brown University.
Zachary Mider is a staff writer at The Providence Journal.
Jeff Parker is a freelance writer in Columbus, Ohio.
Jeremy Willis is a painter in New York City.
ART DIRECTOR//
Thiago deMello Bueno is a freelance designer in New York City.
FOUNDERS, LEAD EDITORS//
Nathan Deuel is a new media intern at The Atlantic Monthly in Boston.
Kelly McEvers is a freelance journalist in Providence, Rhode Island.
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