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Barukh Shalev

West of Kabul - Kabul, Afghanistan

Barukh Shalev discovers that Afghanistan is full of acronyms, like W.H.O., U.N., U.S.A.I.D., W.H.O. - a country that had been ripped open and stuffed full of foreign things.

The Hospitality Club - Athens, Greece

Barukh Shalev finds himself without a place to live - and turns to The Club for survival.

Borderland - China and Pakistan

Barukh Shalev finds that borderlands are bad places with bad people; barren lands populated by people who are parasitic upon their environment, people who have no choice, people who are stuck in betwe

Fire and Ice: A Halloween Story - Bishkek, Kyrgystan

Barukh Shalev finds fights every where he turns on Halloween in Kyrgystan.

Afghanistan Part Two: Midnite at the Copacabana - Kabul, Afghanistan

Barukh Shalev drinks with the troops in Kabul.

Afghanistan Part One: Every Man A King - Peshawar, Pakistan - Kabul, Afghanistan

Barukh Shalev crosses over the border into Afghanistan, going only because it was forbidden and he was afraid.

Twins - Hunza Valley, Pakistan

Barukh Shalev meets two twin girls with the same unknown disease.

Ultash Language School - China

In China, Barukh Shalev gets into a conversation he'd rather avoid.

Forget Me Not: Notes from a Kashgar Wedding - China, Asia

While attending a Moslem wedding, Barukh Shalev peers in on 'girl things', refuses to chant "Allah U Akbar" and gives comfort through a little white lie.

To Live and Die in L.A. - Los Angeles, California

Barukh Shalev heads to L.A. with bricks of marijuana and a friend and ends up on the wrong side of town on New Year's Eve.

Charlotte - Maui, Hawaii

How to you react to a slowly dying woman, Barukh Shalev questions.

The Painful Shore: Among the Dead and Dying of Kalaupapa - Molokai, Hawaii

Barukh Shalev ventures to an town of lepers, unable to shake the heavy sadness and cold embrace of death.

The Music Box - Turpan, Xinjiang Provence, China

Winning a raffle is lucky - unless it's a prize the recipient doesn't want.

The Burial of Mr. Ping - Fengxiang, China

Barukh Shalev stumbles across a traditional funeral in China, meeting a man as ugly in death as he was in life.

The Karaoke Facists - Dunhuang, China

Rattling walls can only mean one thing in China - karaoke.

The Butcher's Son - China

Barukh Shalev observes the local butcher end the life of a sheep in China.

Dusk In The Moslem Quarter - Xi'an, China

Moslem Xi'an is a world apart from the rest of the city - and nation.

Barukh Shalev - Author Bio

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