(Photo: Nichole Sobecki)
This photograph originally appeared in the October 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.
Gaza City, Gaza Strip: A doctor and nurse stitch a man's finger in Al-Shifa Hospital.
Huth, Yemen: In April, children watch a dust devil whip up sand as it travels across the desert landscape near the town of Huth, about 50 miles north of Yemen's capital.
Sanaa, Yemen: Despite political unrest during the early months of protest during the Arab Spring, a Yemeni man keeps his shop open, selling nuts and dried fruit.
Jharia, India: An underground fire, which locals say first started in an abandoned mine here in 1916, still burns as workers tap the remaining supply of coal.
Gazipara, Bangladesh: In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.
Haji Ali, Iraq: A view of the village—which has been ravaged by battles against ISIS—through one of its destroyed buildings.
