A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Cairo

A woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Cairo May 24, 2012. Egypt resumes its first free presidential election on Thursday after voting passed off mostly calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT – Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Alex Stonehill

Alex is a cofounder and editor of The Seattle Globalist. He's a visual journalist whose work has been published by PBS, The Seattle Times, FRONTLINE/World and the Seattle Weekly.  Alex teaches journalism in the University of Washington's Department of Communication and recently directed the documentary film Barzan.