Before wrapping up the personal intro section of my book by jumping into the subject of being a woman photojournalist in the world at large and in the Muslim world, I'd like to post some of my pix from U St. NW in Washington, D.C., the night President-elect Barack Obama won the election.
U St. NW is famous in African-American history and culture. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Street_Corridor.) That was the place to be Tuesday night, and I stayed till past 3 a.m.
Worldwide I've been present at joyful high points of struggles for independence in places like Eastern Europe, the entire former U.S.S.R., and the Middle East, but I had never seen this kind of ecstasy in American streets until November 4, 2008.
