Life and War
Muhammed Muheisen
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The Burning Humvee
سيارة الهامفي المحترقة
An Iraqi man celebrates on top of a burning U.S. Army Humvee in the northern part of Baghdad, Iraq.
رجل عراقي يحتفل على سطح سيارة عسكرية محترقة من طراز هامفي تابعة للجيش الأمريكي في الجزء الشمالي من بغداد، العراق.
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Desperation
اليأس
An Iraqi woman reacts while waiting outside Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison for her loved ones to be released.
ردّة فعل امرأة عراقية بينما تنتظر خارج سجن أبو غريب في بغداد للإفراج عن أحبّائها.
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Deadly Clashes
اشتباكات مميتة
Anti-government protestors carry badly wounded protestors from the site of clashes in Sanaa after Yemeni security forces firing from rooftops and houses shot at tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators, killing at least 31 protesters demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
متظاهرون مناهضون للحكومة ينقلون متظاهرين مصابين بجروح خطيرة من موقع الاشتباكات في صنعاء بعد أن أطلقت قوّات الأمن اليمنية النار من فوق أسطح المنازل والمباني على عشرات الآلاف من المتظاهرين، ما أسفر عن مقتل ما لا يقلّ عن 31 متظاهراً ممّن يطالبون بالإطاحة بالرئيس علي عبد الله صالح.
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The Last Farewell
الوداع الأخير
A Pakistani policeman uses his mobile phone to take a picture of 2-year-old Hameedah Dawlat who was killed along with her mother and two siblings by a mortar bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan.
شرطي باكستاني يستخدم هاتفه المحمول لالتقاط صورة للطفلة حميده دولت البالغة من العمر عامَين والتي قُتلت مع والدتها وشقيقَيها إثر انفجار قنبلة هاون في بيشاور، باكستان.
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Raining Gas
الغاز الماطر
Demonstrators run to avoid tear gas canisters fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration against Israel’s separation barrier in the Palestinian village of Bilin.
متظاهرون يركضون في كل حدب وصوب لتجنّب قنابل الغاز المسيّل للدموع التي أطلقتها القوات الإسرائيلية خلال مظاهرة ضدّ تشييد الجدار الفاصل الذي تبنيه إسرائيل في قرية بلعين الفلسطينية.
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The Gunners
الجنود المدفعيون
Israeli gunners cover their ears as a heavy artillery piece fires at a target in southern Lebanon, near Kiryat Shmona, on the Israeli border.
جنود مدفعيون إسرائيليون يغطون آذانهم جرّاء إطلاق قذيفة مدفعية ثقيلة على هدف في جنوب لبنان بالقرب من بلدة كريات شمونة الكائنة على الحدود الإسرائيلية.
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Scary Play
المشهد المرعب
A Palestinian child reacts as youths playing with toy guns scare him in an alley of the Palestinian refugee camp of Al-Amari.
ردّة فعل طفل فلسطيني خائف من مجموعة شبان يلعبون ببنادق زائفة في زقاق في مخيم الأمعري للاجئين الفلسطينيين.
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Moments of Fear
لحظات ملؤها الخوف
A Palestinian man protects his children as they take cover during a gun battle between Fatah-loyalist security forces and Hamas supporters in Ramallah.
رجل فلسطيني يحمي أطفاله فيأويهم من الرصاص الناجم عن معركة مسلّحة بين قوّات الأمن الموالية لفتح وأنصار حماس في رام الله.
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Father and Daughter
الأب وابنته
A Syrian man feeds his daughter while sitting in front of his partly damaged house on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria.
رجل سوري يقدم الحليب لابنته أثناء جلوسه أمام منزله المتضرّر جزئياً، على مشارف مدينة حلب، سوريا.
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Fire!
أطلق النار!
An Israeli border police officer fires a tear gas canister at Palestinian stone throwers during clashes erupted following a demonstration against the Israeli missiles strike on Gaza, at the Kalandia checkpoint on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
شرطي من حرس الحدود الإسرائيلي يطلق عبوة من الغاز المسيّل للدموع على الفلسطينيين الذين يرشقونهم بالحجارة وذلك في إطار اشتباكات اندلعت عند حاجز قلنديا على مشارف القدس عقب تظاهرة ضدّ القصف الإسرائيلي على غزة.
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Rays of Hope
بصيص الأمل
Refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan, including unaccompanied minors, gather around fires to shield from the cold in an abandoned warehouse where they took shelter in Belgrade, Serbia.
لاجئون من أفغانستان وباكستان، بمن فيهم قاصرون غير مصحوبين بذويهم، يتجمّعون حول النيران ليحتموا من البرد في مستودع مهجور اتّخذوه ملجأً لهم في بلغراد، صربيا.
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Inside the Frame
داخل حدود الإطار
Pakistani school boys look out the window of their classroom at other classmates chanting prayers to recognize the anniversary of Malala’s shooting by Taliban, at a school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
طلاب باكستانيون ينظرون من نافذة الصف إلى زملائهم الآخرين الذين تتعالى هتافاتهم إحياءً لذكرى إطلاق طالبان النار على ملالا، وذلك في مدرسة في روالبندي، باكستان.
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Holds Onto
التمسّك بمصدر الأمان
Fatimah, a 2-year-old Syrian refugee, holds onto her mother Khadija Moyha against the wind in a tented settlement on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.
اللاجئة السورية فاطمة التي تبلغ من العمر عامَين تتمسّك بوالدتها خديجة مويحة لتحتمي من الرياح داخل خيمتها على مشارف المفرق، الأردن.
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Their Loved Ones
أحبّ الناس إلى قلوبهم
Pakistani women grieve over coffins of their relatives who were killed in a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
نساء باكستانيات يبكين على أقاربهنّ الذين قُتلوا في هجوم انتحاري على كنيسة في بيشاور، باكستان.
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The Pediatric Intensive Care Room
غرفة العناية المركزة للأطفال
Afghan women watch their infants which were born with critical conditions, in a special room for extra treatment in a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
نساء أفغانيات يراقبن أطفالهن الذين ولدوا يعانون من حالات صحية حرجة فوُضعوا في غرفة خاصة لتلقي علاج إضافي في مستشفى في كابول، أفغانستان.
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The Field Hospital
المستشفى الميداني
Wounded anti-government protestors lay on the ground as they received medical help at a field hospital near the site of deadly clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen.
جرحى من المتظاهرين المناهضين للحكومة يستلقون على الأرض أثناء تلقيهم المساعدة الطبية في مستشفى ميداني بالقرب من موقع الاشتباكات الدامية مع قوات الأمن في صنعاء، اليمن.
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Grandma's Love
حبّ الجدة العظيم
Suraya Abdullah, a 68-year-old Pakistani grandmother who was internally displaced by floods from a village in Sindh province, tends to her 2-year-old granddaughter Shameem while resting in a hammock attached on a bed outside their makeshift home in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan.
الجدّة الباكستانية ثريا عبد الله البالغة من العمر 68 عاماً نزحت داخل البلاد بسبب الفيضانات الآتية من قرية في إقليم السند، فترعى حفيدتها شميم البالغة من العمر عامين بينما كانت تستريح بين أحضان أرجوحة شبكية معلّقة بسرير خارج منزلها المؤقّت في أحد الأحياء الفقيرة في إسلام أباد، باكستان.
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Caught in the Storm
بين شباك العاصفة
An Afghan refugee man covers his face as he and others get caught in a sand storm on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
لاجئ أفغاني يغطي وجهه لأنّه علق مع عدد من الأشخاص في قلب عاصفة رملية في ضواحي إسلام أباد، باكستان.
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Election Day
يوم الانتخابات
A Pakistani girl squeezed herself between women lining up to enter a polling station to cast their ballots on election day, in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
فتاة باكستانية تحصر نفسها بين النساء المصطفات لدخول مركز الاقتراع والإدلاء بأصواتهنّ يوم الانتخابات، في ضواحي إسلام أباد، باكستان.
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Life and War
Half of my life I have been traveling the world with my camera to document stories and events that matter, stories of hope, resilience and survival. It is like a smile in the middle of the rubble and this is the theme that I have been working on for more than a decade and a half. When the news was right in front of me, I would just turn around and witness a total different scene, a scene full of life instead of death.
“Life and War”, is a selection of images that spans over a decade and a half, that shows the war, the destruction, the human misery and the resilience of those who got caught in the middle of it, as even in the middle of the conflict, life never stops but keeps going.
Muhammed Muheisen
Muheisen is a Jordanian national and graduated with a B.A. degree in journalism and political science. Since 2001 he has documented major events around the world, in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the United States of America as well as events in Saudi Arabia, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, France, Greece, Germany, Croatia, Austria, New York, the Netherlands, Serbia, South Africa and Uzbekistan.
In 2015, Muheisen established the Dutch non-profit organization Everyday Refugees Foundation which aims to document, educate, help and empower refugees, local communities and internally displaced people by conflict, poverty, discrimination and natural disasters in different parts of the world.
He is a member of the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award advisory committee at the International Women Media Foundation, in Washington D.C., a member of the nominating committee selecting the participants for the annual World Press Photo Joop Swart Master Class in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as well a member of the advisory board of Forum Anja Niedringhaus in Höxter, Germany. He is a Global Ambassador for Jordan Tourism Board, Royal Jordanian Airlines and Canon.
Muheisen served as a jury member in the 2016 Picture of the Year International in Columbia, Missouri, USA, the 2015 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the 2013 Visa D’Or for Visa pour L’Image in Perpignan, France, the 2017 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards, the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo and in March 2019 he was a jury member of the International Film festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2019 the main judge of the National Geographic Abu Dhabi contest “Moments”. In 2020 a nominator for the “Best Press Photo in Government” for the International Government Communication Award in Sharjah, UAE and for the second year in a row he is the main judge of the 2020 National Geographic Abu Dhabi contest “Moments”.
Among other exhibitions, a collection from a decade of his work about “Life in War” was exhibited in the French photo festival Visa pour L’Image in Perpignan. His work about refugees was exhibited at Festival des Libertes in Brussels, Belgium, his photographs about displaced people was exhibited at THE FENCE in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Boston and Houston, USA, also a selection of his work “Pursuit of Happiness” was exhibited at the Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia and for two-year in a row, his work “Victims of War” and “Faces of Sharjah” was exhibited at Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah, UAE. In October 2018, his exhibition “Light on the Move” was displayed at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece. In March 2019 “Light on the Move” was on display during the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. In September 2019, a selection of his images was displayed by the UNDP at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York at Photoville. Currently, his exhibition “Our World” is displayed at the Four Seasons hotel in Amman, Jordan, in support of cancer patients at the King Hussein Cancer Center and Foundation. Most recently, from Nov. 20 – Dec. 3, 2020, his exhibition “Lest We Forget” was displayed at the JICA Global Plaza in Tokyo, organized by the Jordanian Embassy in Japan.