The team

My team will be placed in Tulkarem, a town in the northwestern part of the West Bank right next to the green line, i.e. the 1949 armistice line between Israel and Jordan (see OCHA for maps and more information).

Guillaume, (25) a former journalism, politics and history student, is a French-speaking Swiss. Always with his camera at hand and a Radiohead lyric ringing in his head, the young man is making life difficult for the Palestinians with his very French name. William, as he is also known, has promised to improve my French, make pasta and take notes. Apparently he has a lookalike somewhere in Tulkarem, and I'm quite intrigued to see the two together at some point.

Lerato (26) is a theology student from South Africa. He had a less than friendly encounter with the Israeli authorities when arriving at the airport in Tel Aviv. He was detained and isolated for 26 hours after being interrogated by five soldiers. Reason? No one knows for sure. So he has already had a taste of what it's like to be a Palestinian. Lerato sure likes his computer, and is really into sad sad ballads. Soon, I'll be able to recite the whole Boyz II Men album from 1993.

And that's it. The three of us will live and work together for the next three months. Our domestic life will certainly be an experience worth documenting, however, maybe not suitable for publishing...

These pictures were taken by the lovely Marc Juillard, a member of the previous Tulkarem team.