takes years of commitment, to not get sidetracked by things that are less critical. There are a lot of critical things to think and talk about right now. Finding the way at them is important. One of the things that interested me about my time in Somalia—and I don’t quite know what to do with this yet—was my interest in photography and filming in Somalia. There are all kinds of restrictions on who can be filmed and who cannot. There’s an amazing group of videographers who film weddings. The wedding parties are all single-sex and women dress completely differently than they dress out in the street. It becomes illicit material that everyone wants to look at and it can be dangerous, as well, if the video images of women dancing get outside the family and passed from cell phone to cell phone, for instance. Women can get into trouble. That’s fascinating to me, what can be
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