Photos: Left, Gaza City, 2009; Above, Lake Titicaca, Peru, 2007; Lower Left, Dali, China, 2004; Lower Right, Luang Prabang, Laos, 2006. 

Rafael D. Frankel is a Ph.D student in international relations at Georgetown University and an international development consultant. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent based in the Middle East from 2005-2008 and in Southeast Asia from 2000-2005. He wrote mainly for The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe & The Chicago Tribune. Mr. Frankel holds an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (2009) and a B.A. in Economics from UC Santa Cruz (1999). He was the 2009 Edward Weintal Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and is currently a Rumsfeld fellow in the Department of Government at Georgetown.