Monday April 29, 2002, Jerusalem, Israel

Holy Fire ceremony

Christian pilgrims reach their arms into a solitary beam of light passing through a window in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on the Saturday of Lights during the ceremony of Holy Fire. The Holy Fire ceremony is held on the second day of the Orthodox Easter, the day according to Orthodox Christian tradition that Jesus ascended to heaven following his crucifixion.

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2001, Hebron, West Bank, Palestinian Territory

Palestinian woman hurls stone during clashes in Hebron.

A Palestinian woman hurls a stone towards Israeli soldiers during clashes in the divided West Bank city of Hebron.

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Wednesday October 11, 2000, Yizhar, Palestine

Funeral of Hillel Lieberman

An armed ultra-Orthodox Jewish settler carries a baby at the graveyard in the settlement of Yizhar during the funeral of Hillel Lieberman, an American rabbi killed by Palestinians October 8, 2000.

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2001, East Jerusalem, Israel

Palestinian girls during clashes in east Jerusalem.

Palestinian girls take shelter in a doorway as a masked Palestinian walks past during clashes.

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2002, Jerusalem, Israel

Peace Now Rally in Israel

Young demonstrator holds peace symbol

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Jerusalem, Israel

Palestinians clash with Israeli troops

Israeli border policemen surround a Palestinian man who was shot with a rubber bullet in the mouth during clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City following Muslim Friday prayers.

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2001, Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestinian Territory

Palestinian throws rocks towards Israelis soldiers in Bethlehem.

A masked Palestinian throws rocks towards Israeli soldiers from atop a church.

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2000, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestinian Territory

Palestinian gunmen march in refugee camp.

Tanzim gunmen march with their weapons during a rally through the Jalazoun refugee camp.

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Sunday April 1, 2001, East Jerusalem, Israel

Palestinian boy wets pants as he is arrested in Jerusalem.

A Palestinian boy wets his pants as he is arrested by Israeli police for throwing stones during clashes between Israeli forces following Friday Muslim prayers in east Jerusalem.

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March 2002, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan

Grandfather secretly teaches his grandson to read Arabic

In the Fergana Valley, a grandfather secretly teaches his grandson to read Arabic, the language of the Koran. Learning outside of a government approved institution is illegal.

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2001, Ramallah, Palestinian Territory

Palestinan boy cries during funeral.

A Palestinian boy weeps during the funeral for his uncle who was killed during clashes with Israeli forces.

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Saturday November 17, 2001, Gaza Strip, Israel

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the radical Islamic Hamas group

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the radical Islamic Hamas group, in his office in the Gaza Strip.

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March 2002, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan

Mosque in the Fergana Valley

An Uzbek man exits a mosque in the Fergana Valley as a woman walks past.

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March 2002, Margilan, Uzbekistan

Uzbek men during Friday prayers

Uzbek men pray with colorful prayer mats at a mosque in the Uzbek town of Margilan in the Fergana Valley during Friday prayers.

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April 2002, Khorog, Tajikistan

Muslim women's group FOCUS train for avalanche rescues

A member of the first Muslim women's mountain rescue team trains in rapelling on the side of a building, nestled high in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, just miles from the Afghan border. In this earthquake prone region (two earthquakes have rocked Afghanistan since January), leaders of the local all-male rescue team realized that a natural disaster would leave women vulnerable because religious men would not permit strange men to touch their wives or female family members during a rescue operation

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1999, Lebanon

Kurdish women work in field in Lebanon.

Kurdish women tend a field in the eastern part of the country.

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Wednesday June 19, 2002, Kigali, Rwanda

Rwanda genocide prisoners

Theoneste Nsengiyamua, 35, is a prisoner at Gikondo prison. He confessed to being part of a group that killed a person during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but he denied personally committing the murder.

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Thursday March 27, 2003, Kuluku, Eritrea

Girls carry water home in dusty Eritrea

Girls carry buckets of water from a waterhole near Kuluku. Some girls walk over an hour everyday to gather water.

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Tuesday November 19, 2002, West Hararge, Mieso District, Ethiopia

Woman herds skinny cattle in Ethiopia

A woman waits to take her cows to a watering hole in the dusty district. With the failure of the last rains in Ethiopia, there is little water for animals or humans.

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June 2001, Daloa, Ivory Coast

Young man works in cocoa field in Ivory Coast

Foussemy Cisse, 15, has been harvesting cocoa for almost a year with no pay. In the off-season, he's forced to work on rice and corn fields. If he's fortunate enough to go home, he said, he would never return to the Ivory Coast.

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Monday November 18, 2002, Belew, Ethiopia

Woman sits by carcass in Ethiopia

A woman sits by the skull of a cow, in Ethiopia. The cattle died from hunger and lack of water because the last rains in Ethiopia have failed, leaving the population vulnerable to a hunger crisis.

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Saturday August 9, 2003, Maralal, Kenya

Samburu people in Maralal, Kenya.

Samburu people wait for racers from the 13th Maralal International Camel Derby to pass.

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Daloa, Ivory Coast

Child slave holds cocoa pods in Ivory Coast

Mombi Bakayork, 15, holds cacoa pods he has just cut down. His master paid $13 for Mombi and a $20 transport fee to a trafficker who tricked Mombi to coming to the Ivory Coast from Mali.

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Thursday May 29, 2003, Bunia, Congo

Ethnic conflict in Congo

The body of four-year-old Charlene Naziko is carried out of the medical clinic in Bunia after she died from anemia according to a doctor at the medical clinic in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo. Ethnic clashes between the Hema and Lendu have killed hundreds in recent weeks causing a major humanitarian crises in the country.

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Tuesday March 25, 2003, Bimbina, Eritrea

Women wait for grain distribution in Eritrea

Women wait to receive grain at a food distribution camp for people living outside of an IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp.

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Thursday June 5, 2003, Bunia, Democratic Repubic of Congo

Rally for UPC president Thomas Lubanga in Bunia

A UPC (Union of Congolese Patriots) soldier at a rally for UPC president Thomas Lubanga in the village of Iga Barriere some 25 kilometers away from Bunia.

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2001, Daloa, Ivory Coast

Woman sifts cocoa beans at Nestle purchasing center in Ivory Coast

An Ivorian woman sifts and cleans cocoa beans outside of a Nestle purchasing center near Daloa.

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Daloa, Ivory Coast

Freed child slave sleeps on bench in Ivory Coast

Zei Mathias lies on a bench outside a mosque, this is his bed. Zei was sold to a farmer but escaped. Now he lives on the street and does odd jobs, trying to earn $15 for bus fare home to Burkina Faso.

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Friday June 28, 2002, Dedza region, Malawi

Hardships in Africa

6-year-old Anansi Machilika is weighed at a nutritional rehabilitation unit in the Dedza region of Malawi. She walked with her mother for nearly two hours to reach the center where they were examined for signs of malnourishment, weighed and measured. They were fed a fortified bowl of maize meal and given a weeks supply of food, provided by the World Food Program, becuase they showed signs of malnourishment. If they return each week they will be examined for signs of improvement and will continue to receive food until reach an appropriate weight for their age and as long as the center has enough food to distribute. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein

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Evelyn Hockstein

Evelyn Hockstein is a freelance photojournalist currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. She covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Arab world since 1998. In 2002 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism to travel to Tajikistan and study at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. In 2001 she was awarded 3rd prize for her Intifada coverage in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of child slavery in West Africa. She has covered the funerals of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Jordan's King Hussein, as well as feature assignments in Iraq and Lebanon. Her work has been published in various international publications including The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune, Stern, L'Express, U.S. News and World Report, The Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated for Women. She obtained a Bachelor's of Arts in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania.