Due to overcrowding and make-shift housing conditions in Cairo’s City of the Dead, much of daily life takes place in public. One million people live, work, shop and got to school in this cemetery.

Boys play ball among the tombs of Cairo's City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums.

San Francisco's inflated housing market and high rents are particularly hard on low-income seniors. An elderly resident being evicted from his home is assisted by the SF Sheriff's department, part of an innovative program to help the most vulnerable.

A Kurdish woman harvests lentils on Arab owned land in Syria, along the border with Turkey.

The Ishikveren Refugee Camp in Turkey was home to 200,000 Kurds from Iraq who fled after the Gulf War in 1991.

In a Turkish terrorist court in Diyarbakir, this Kurdish woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison, accused of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which seeks to create an independent state in southeastern Turkey.

Early morning calisthenics for a new group of Pesh Merga recruits in Northern Iraq

Even harsh winter conditions don’t stop these brave children from attending school. In bombed-out schoolrooms in Penjwin, Kurdish children study in three daily shifts because there aren't enough teachers, rooms or supplies.