Jeff Blankfort just emailed me to say I need a photo, and he's right. I love Arab portraits because I know so little about Arab culture and want to know more, want to enter the dream of the Palestinian kids. He took this picture of refugees in September 1970 at a clinic of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Bakaa Refugee Camp outside of Amman, Jordan. "This was just before Black September when King Hussein launched his war on the PLO and the refugee camps.
The woman in the rear was an agricultural worker who told us that on
the way back from the fields that day, a Jordanian soldier boarded the
workers' bus and told them if they returned to work again they would be
shot. The children and the women are at the clinic to get shots against
cholera." I keep looking at the girl who's laughing in the middle, turned to look at the woman talking. She looks smart. Wonder what she's doing now.