It was through the lens of a camera I started to discover my surroundings well over three decades ago. Sometimes pen was put to paper and now the two has merged. The road was by no means straight and detoured into Civil Engineering, Mine clearing in Southern Lebanon, Weapons of Mass Destruction in Saddam’s Iraq and Chemical Weapons across the globe. These detours have afforded a wider world view, insight to complexities and definitively taken me well off the beaten path.