He stayed there for more than 20 years and shot some of the most poignant and evocative pictures of the time, from the civil rights movement to Harlem gangs.
There is a new interior minister (Hani al-Hassan, a long-time loyalist from Mr Arafat's Fatah movement) but the bulk of the old ministers remain in place, including two top negotiators who had been high on the parliament's wish-list for demotion.
Seeming to lose itself in the strands of time, the Atmos movement projects languid tranquility from within the crystalline confines of a unique glass bubble.