© Teru Kuwayama
A family carries supplies in Pakistani-administered Kashmir after the 2005 earthquake.
Kuwayama and Parenti, both Americans, previously collaborated on a book about the Iraq war titled The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq.
Their next project is called “Unnatural Borders, Open Wounds: The Human Landscape of Pakistan.”
They propose “to investigate the multi-faceted nature of Pakistani national identity and to probe some of the underlying causes for the country’s instability,” according to their proposal.
“It’s about focusing on the human terrain of Pakistan, to use a military term,” says Kuwayama, who has spent eight years covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The entire region is chaotic and unstable, and Pakistan is at the heart of it.”
Parenti is a contributing editor for The Nation and Playboy. Kuwayama says he appreciates Parenti’s confrontational and brutally honest journalism. “I certainly respect his honesty and his willingness to be blunt about the truth,” Kuwayama says.
Kuwayama is a freelancer who has shot for Time, Newsweek and National Geographic, among other publications. He co-founded the Lightstalkers Web site and a curated the traveling exhibition “Battlespace: Unrealities of War.” He won a $35,000 Alicia Patterson grant in 2006, and starting this fall he will be a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where he will focus on will focus on creating a South Asia reporting web site that incorporates social networking technology, to promote information sharing among journalists, policy makers, military personnel, aid workers, academic experts, and others.
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