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In the following link there are multiple images as well as informative texts. Olivia Arthur, and photographer, traveled to Saudi Arabia to teach a photography class. The images seen are a few of the pictures she took while there. Arthur discusses the difficulties she faced, many of the women did not want to be photographed or have their faces showing, Arthur had to get creative with her pictures. She also states that there is a discrepancy with women's rights when it comes to what economic class you are in.

Somewhat off my normal topic, I found this article fascinating. This photographer, when the war in Libya broke out, decided to go and document the war with nothing more than his iPhone. Even after being hit by a mortar attack, he still went on documenting for his new book, the war torn and sometimes never shown images from the Libyan war.

This article in 2015, describes what women face everyday on Egypt streets. Eman Helal often wears a gas mask and helmet when she photographs protests. She knowns that this protective gear provides her an extra level of security from men in public. It has been said that physical attacks on women by groups of men have increased in Egypt since the start of the Arab Spring.

This article provides a detailed outline of the battle against ISIS in Iraq and Syria through the use of maps, charts, and photographs to allow readers to visualize areas where fighting is taking place. Several maps provide locations of ISIS controlled territory, locations of airstrikes, and locations of ISIS controlled oil refineries. It was really helpful to see different maps outlining this information because I often hear about this conflict on the radio or television programs and it can be hard to understand the scope of the conflict without any visual aids. I really appreciated the effort to show in detail the specific locations.

This article outlined the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq providing detailed maps, charts, and photos to present a more clear picture of where violence and air strikes are occurring.

In this Facebook page, the focus is mainly the graffiti during the revolution. This is helpful because not only does it give me more photograph of the art but it shows how the social media was involved.

This exhibition at the Printing Museum in Houston, Texas, examines the development and impact of Arabic graffiti over the past decade through 30 contemporary photographs and accompanying didactic panels.

This article illuminates the aftermath of Gaddafi's reign from a first person perspective of a citizen fleeing the country due to its devastating chaos. He offers a short version of the conflict and the rise in militant groups. The root of the issue is the fact that when the GNC took power, the factions funded the militant groups for their own insurance rather than working towards their disbandment. The Islamist coalition dominated parliament, and as chaos deepened when they realized they would loose the election so they just delayed having one. This is where General Khalifa Haftar chimed in, launching his offense against islamic insurgency by storming the capitol in Tripoli leading the country to slip into civil war. The Author says "We are like a class of kids where the bad teacher is suddenly dead," he said. "Now we all fight each other." When the light finally comes to a country that was for so long in the dark, its blinding. 

ISIL killed a 17 year old boy because he was suspected of taking photos on the headquarters in Raqqa. It was said that the boy took the photo for 500 Turkish lira.

Kurdish soldiers recovered images of ISIL picking a baby girl down with a knife near her throat. It is unclear what happen to the child. Many other images were found in the phone like the terrorist group playing football with heads.

HIlary Clinton is using the Israeli Education program to highlight her campaign. She wants to promote Israeli education and how she supports early education. Hilary Clinton adds she wants to support overseas education as well