Yuri Kozyrev: On Revolution Road

With the fall of Libya's regime, I thought I'd feature Yuri Kozyrev's On Revolution Road, a reportage on the past months' uprisings in the Middle East against the sclerotic and despotic regimes that governed these countries for decades.

Kozyrev's focus was on the youthfulness of the revolutionaries, their clever use of social media websites, their embrace (for the most part) of nonviolent protests as a political tool.

As an award-winning photojournalist for the past 20 years, Yuri Kozyrev has covered every major conflict in the former Soviet Union, including two Chechen wars. Immediately after September 11, 2001, he was on the scene in Afghanistan, where he documented the fall of the Taliban. He spent much of the past eight years based in Baghdad, as a contract photographer for TIME Magazine. He has traveled all over Iraq, photographing the different sides of the conflict.

AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini

I also thought I'd feature this priceless image of a man, wearing a t-shirt with the design of U.S. flag, taking part on Friday prayers at the main square of the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, on August 12, 2011. It's part of a larger gallery in The Atlantic's In Focus.

Libya...Final Throes

Photo © AP/Alexandre Meneghini

In Focus, the photo blog of The Atlantic, is one of the first to feature the Libyan rebels in the Libyan capital. More will follow shortly.

Having Al Jazeera on NYC's cable news line-up is wonderful. No other US cable news comes even close to its coverage. In fact, MSNBC finally woke up from its slumber on Sunday early evening and hastily cobbled some footage, frequently quoting Al Jazeera. CNN tried its best, but there's no room for second place in breaking news coverage.