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The following are ideas that we are currently seeking to include in our upcoming issues of Sowar Magazine. Feel free to be as creative as you can be in depicting those documentaries. You can submit photos to any or all of the themes:


Lebanon War: 2006 Conflict
A documentary about the Lebanese War (July 2006). It will be divided into two main sections, one is a “Snapshot-a-Day” during the timeline of the war by different photojournalists, and the other is a selection of photoessays that focus on a specific topic during the war.

Snapshot-a-Day
We are basically asking each photojournalist to submit a selection of their 10 best photos taken on different dates during the war (and shortly after it), which we’ll select one of them to publish. Around 33 to 50 pictures will be published (each representing a different day of the war). The picture would include commentary on why it meant so much to you to take that specific picture, or any interesting story behind it that the average reader might find interesting.

Photoessays
Some photographers have covered a specific topic about the war (either during or after), and for those photographers, a photoessay of around 12-15 photos with a title and descriptive paragraph will be published (on around 10 pages).

Arab Cultures
A documentary about how people from different parts of the Arab World follow region-specifc cultures. This could include documentary photos of everything from cuisine (including traditional foods) andmusic to religions and art.