Scott Lewis
Black and White: Beyond The Bullets

Nader Atta reaches out to take in the scope of a scene of destruction in Nablus, West Bank. The space in front of Atta was a building where five families with 28 people lived before an Israeli military bulldozer, the size of a two story house, turned the home into a pile of rubble. According to the Israeli government, soldiers encountered gunfire coming from the house. Atta is a Programme Management Officer for the United Nations Developement Programme's Environment and Infrastructure Unit. Atta, a Palestinian-American, graduated in 1993 from North Carolina State University with a Master's Degree in Technology for International Development. Atta lives in Ramallah in the West Bank with his wife and three children.
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