Remembering Syria and Syrians – The Sculptor Mustafa Ali

Sculptor Mustafa Ali in Damascus, Syria. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

This is the fourth installment of a series reflecting on the Syria we knew and the Syrians we befriended in the years we travelled to the country before the Civil War. Parts one and two were on the Storyteller Abu Shady and Jazz Duo Rasha Rizk and Ghazwan Zerkli. The Old City of Damascus had … Read more

Remembering Syria and Syrians Before the Civil War

A shepherd on his donkey outside Homs, Syria. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Last weekend, following a three-day ceasefire agreement reached during the Syria peace talks in Geneva the previous week, the UN evacuated some 700 Syrians from Homs’ old quarter, a rebel-held area besieged by Syrian government forces for some 18 months. A further 300 people were able to leave a few days later. Sadly, as they … Read more

Can We Photograph Your Cows?

A farm in Isaan, Thailand. Can We Photograph Your Cows? Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We left the Khmer temples of Prasat Phanom Rung and nearby Prasat Muang Tam that we’d woken at 4am to drive to, in order to capture them at their best at magic hour, and we began our drive back to Korat and on to another Khmer temple complex, Prasat Hin Phimai. But not before stopping to photograph … Read more