The new student photo series continues again today.  If you have sent photos, thank you and we will work on posting.  If  you have yet to send photos see this entry for details.

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Hi, my name is Carly Roberts and I’m an incoming MPA student.

French Music Critic: I took this photo in Nice, France last summer. This little girl was fascinated by the street musicians; she alternated between looking quizzically at them and dancing to the music.

Tokyo Blur: This photo was taken in a busy train station in Tokyo, Japan. As I stood still for the long exposure, all the locals hurrying past looked at me like I was crazy!

Capital Funk: Most people are surprised when I tell them that I’m part of an award-winning hip hop dance crew! I’ve danced with Capital Funk in Washington DC for 6 years (you can look us up on youtube, we’re pretty awesome!)… that’s me to the right of center on the floor, in the yellow jacket.

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Anne Yalkabova, an incoming MIA student interested in International Security Policy, submitted the following pictures.

The photo is taken in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the ancient Basilica Cistern.

Below is the Sophia, Greek goddess of wisdom.  The photo was taken among ruins of ancient Ephesus, Turkey.

Incoming MIA student Paul Hersh sent along the following photos for posting.  Enjoy.

“Vietnam – Ha Long Bay” – A lonely fisherman in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

“Syria – Aleppo – Umayyad Mosque” – Inside the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo, Syria.

“Cambodia – Phnom Penh – Tuol Sleng” – Building A of Tuol Sleng, with large cells in which the bodies of the last victims were discovered. The photos on the wall are how the rooms were found, with the mutilated body of a prisoner chained to the bed, killed by his fleeing captors only hours before the prison was captured.  Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, was a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979.