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Articles by Rita Leistner

National Magazine Award Nominee

War Stories

Rita Leistner’s “portraitscapes” of Lebanon, 2006. NMA nominee: Photojournalism & Photo Essay

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Bonus photos for “War Stories”

Photo Essay

The Last Lumberjacks

Times change for Quebec loggers

Ephemera

Ephemera

The Israel Defense Forces dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets on Lebanon

Dispatches

Al Rashad

Inside Baghdad’s largest psychiatric hospital, during an insane war

Dispatches

The Burning Tip of the Spear

Crazy Horse led the charge into Iraq. Now they were facing an unexpected guerrilla war in the Sunni triangle, but what they wanted most was to get home without losing a man

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Red Rush

Red Rush

No longer kept in check by cold winters, the mountain pine beetle has killed $50 billion worth of BC forest in less than a decade. NMA Nominee: Science, Technology & The Environment; Gold Medal: Best New Writer, Patrick White

From the archives: May 2006

Master of Guillotine

An Algerian executioner put 200 men to death. He has never lost a moment’s sleep

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