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Meet “Al Gore”: Toronto Mayoral Candidate 2014

Sunday January 5, 2014 / HiMY SYeD / 0 Comments

Each New Year’s Day Afternoon, The City of Toronto hosts it’s annual Levee, where members of the general public line up to get a turn at meeting and being greeted by the Mayor and members of City Council.

On a day when nearly everything else in the city is closed due to New Year’s, this was the only game in town. The only other game of note being the NHL Winter Classic down the road in Detroit, which everyone seemed to be following on their BlackBerries and other handhelds.

This being a Municipal Election year in Toronto, and the day before nominations officially open, I found numerous potential Mayoral and Council Candidates doing the rounds inside the Rotunda of Toronto City Hall.

Among City Council Wannabes wandering the Rotunda was one Al Gore, declared Mayoral Candidate. Oh really? “Al Gore”?
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Mohsina Khatoon…

Tuesday February 12, 2013 / HiMY SYeD / 0 Comments

My Grandmother passed away this morning at 4:55 a.m.

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InshAllah, God-Alone Willing, I will update this blog post with more about my Grandmother’s life in a few days.

On this sunny cloudless morning in Milpitas, California, I choose not to remember her as she lay in her hospital bed in San José, for almost the past month.

For the moment, I choose to remember my Grandmother as she was in this simple video of everyday life recorded September 24 2004 in Fremont.

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My Grandmother was 89

Tariq Ramadan – IIT – 12 25 2012

Tuesday December 25, 2012 / HiMY SYeD / 0 Comments

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On This Day, 344 years ago…

Friday December 21, 2012 / HiMY SYeD / 0 Comments

Barack Hussein Obama

Tuesday November 6, 2012 / HiMY SYeD / 0 Comments

On my 40th birthday, I found myself in the United States booth in the Exhibition Hall of World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They used an entire wall to create a photo opportunity for Forum attendess to shake hands with The President. So I did.

Two and half years later, it’s Election Day in The United States.

For President Obama, it’s Re-Election Day… or maybe the U.S. Electorate will vote Tails instead of Heads and The World wakes up to President-Elect Romney.

Whoever wins tonight, or in the days that follow pending an inconclusive result, it will be a night of nuanced firsts:
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The Story Behind Hurricane Sandy’s First Viral Photo

Sunday November 4, 2012 / HiMY SYeD / 0 Comments

American Photo Magazine interviews Nick Cope about his viral photo experience during Hurricane Sandy. It is a story many accidental photojournalists will identify with.

” On the morning the storm hit New York City, Nick Cope snapped a photo of rising flood waters from the window of his Red Hook, Brooklyn apartment. Then things got interesting. “

Increasingly, Climate Change induced extreme weather phenomena has become the norm. Likewise, so has photograph rights-usage stories like Nick Cope’s also become the norm.