I must thank several of my Kurdish Facebook friends who so quickly advised me that the first image in my recent posting was a picture not of two Kurds but of two Arabs. As two or three sharp-eyed writers pointed out, these were not Peshmergas, but Yemenis. I had visited Yemen in 1964, with New York Times correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt, covering a civil war then being supported by the Egyptians in the south and the Saudis in the north. At some point in the ensuing 50 years, that Kodachrome slide was mistakenly misplaced among my Kurdish coverage of 1965, possibly in comings and goings between photo agencies. As many of my Facebook and blog readers know by now, I have a special place in my heart for the Kurds. I have been amazed and grateful how many have responded positively to my photo-postings during these fast moving and critical times. Amid serious factional struggles, Kurdistan seems to be moving toward what we in the U.S. once called our own “new birth of freedom.” — William Carter
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:56:00 +0000
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