Daniel J. Gerstle | Writing
Daniel J. Gerstle, Gerstle, Humanitarian, Humanitarian Bazaar, media, multimedia, creative media, Cincinnati, Berlin, Sarajevo, Mogadishu, Kabul, Paris
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PUBLISHED HIGHLIGHTS

2021  |  SyriaUntold

A decade of attacks on Syria’s hospitals, and the medical workers who learned to survive. By Daniel J. Gerstle. A new report details a decade of attacks on Syrian medical facilities. Could it help the next generation of doctors and nurses? 6 April 2021…

2016  |  The New Humanitarian

Elderly Fare Worst in Europe’s Forgotten Conflict: Ukraine. By Daniel J. Gerstle. Avdiivka, Ukraine. “A bullet flew in right here,” explains Nadyezhda Semyonovna, 65, to her local pastor, Yura, in the dining room of her home near Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine. “I was wearing pants like this and it went through here,” she says, pointing to the front of her thigh where it sliced through the cloth…

2014  |  The Atlantic

Surviving Syria’s Civil War with Heavy Metal. By Daniel J. Gerstle. Armed with a cellphone and borrowed camera, a young Syrian seeks refuge in a rockumentary. On a scorching August day in 2011, in the city of Homs, the Syrian conflict nearly swallowed Monzer Darwish… 

2013  |  Rolling Stone (Middle East)

Syria: Rock in a Hard Place. How Bashar Haroun is striving to keep metal alive in Syria. By Daniel J. Gerstle. Photos by Hazem Abdul Raouf and Haneen B Nasser. … “C’mon, Syria!” Bashar Haroun, the 28-year-old singer of heavy-metal band Reaction, calls out from the stage to the restless crowd at Al Zahraa Cinema in the Syrian coastal city of Lattakia. “We’ll show the world that even in this crisis we still believe in metal…”

2012  |  Rolling Stone (Middle East)

Somalia: The Rise of Waayaha Cusub. By Daniel J. Gerstle. March 2012. Somalia’s hip hop renegades are claiming their country’s culture back from militant extremists. Shiine Akhyaar, the outspoken lead singer and manager of the Somali hip hop collective, Waayaha Cusub, loves to share his political opinions, but not his personal life…

2011  |  Rolling Stone (Middle East)

Afghanistan: Amplifiers in Kabul. By Daniel J. Gerstle. Photos by David Gill. December 2011. District Unknown are at the forefront of an Afghan psychedelic and heavy metal scene that is pioneering a new underground renaissance. We’re cutting through the black, dusty night searching for a rock party in a secret underground bunker in Kabul, Afghanistan. Crossing the intersection past a police checkpoint and heading down an empty street, we hear a low, throbbing growl emanate from the basement of an apartment building. The bass and drums softly pulsating in the shadows of a silent war zone are enough to drop blood pressure, hasten respiration, and spark the bitter taste of adrenaline…

2007  |  The Guardian

Somalia: Aid Workers Under Attack. By Daniel J. Gerstle. October 2007. My research team and I were near the end of an arduous four-month venture across the north-eastern African nation of Somalia when we came upon an armed man who wanted to kill me. He had wild eyes – bloodshot and rubbed raw – on an otherwise emotionless face. A thick, aggressive Somali man in his forties, he stirred up dust and an entourage as he approached us…

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