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Link: An Inside View of Arab Photography](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/an-inside-view-of-arab-photography/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0&gwh=C4D90D2C12B92C3743F85A1BA39D0BDD&gwt=pay)

Samer Mohdad was a 10-year-old boy living in the mountain village of his Druse ancestors when Lebanon’s civil war broke out in 1975. His life changed overnight: His childhood playmates were now his sworn enemies. The traumatic experience of the war, which lasted until 1990, stayed with him and, Mr. Mohdad believes, eventually led him to photography.