Bethlehem snapshots

Christian Century, May 29, 2007 by Kike Arnal

Kike Arnal, a photographer based in New York City, has covered stories in the Americas, Asia and Europe. He is at work on a book of photographs illustrating the social contrasts of Washington, D. C.

George Sa'adeh, deputy mayor of Bethlehem, and his wife, Naja, at the grave of their daughter Christine, who was killed in 2003 during an Israeli army ambush in which her car was mistaken for that of terrorists; Andrea Nastas and Daniel Nastas play ball in front of their house next to the Separation Wall; Father Spiridion Sammour, a Greek Orthodox priest, in the Church of the Nativity; a view of the Separation Wall from Bethlehem, looking toward the Israeli settlement of Gilo.

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Photos by Kike Arnal