Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World, offers a timely portrait of a diverse culture where love, honor, and deep faith collide in a life-or-death conflict with intolerance and anger.
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Behind The Photo: Alexandra Avakian, Iran
Alexandra Avakian describes how a quiet moment can create a memorable composition.
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1989 was already a great year: I had covered the Palestinian Intifada, the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Glasnost and Perestroika in Moscow, the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, among other stories for Time Magazine and the New York Times.
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
In Miami, here second:
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Alexandra Avakian is a contract photographer with National Geographic and frequently publishes in Time, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. Her first book, Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World (National Geographic Society), was published in September.
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
Next week more shows! This time in Miami. Here first:
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Renowned photojournalist Alexandra Avakian to speak at FIU | News at FIU - Florida International Uni
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Renowned photojournalist Alexandra Avakian to speak at FIU
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
Welcome to my Saturday Nov. 7 Windows of the Soul slide lecture at the Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Art Center, American University. I will also be showing some pix from the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is organized by Foto Week DC and Lucien Perkins. 3 slide lectures by 3 photographers. 2-5 pm.
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Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World Here's a photo from the slide show: (c) Alexandra Avakian/Contact Press Images
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World Check out Alexandra Avakian's Fall of the Berlin Wall pictures which she shot for LIFE Magazine. They are featured as a continuously running slide show on the 40 foot Atrium screen at The Newseum in Washington DC! (www.newseum.com) as part of their 20th anniversary exhibition on the fall of the Berlin Wall and as part of DC Foto Week.
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The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington DC — offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. ...
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World This is me in Morocco after the Arab Summit in 1989.
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
This Iranian couple on a bridge in Isfahan, Iran, is with a chaperone. They are out of sight of morality police on the other side of the bridge who have set up a station to monitor people's behavior and dress. I shot this in 1998 for National Geographic Magazine during four months of travels throughout the country, lan...d of my grandfather's birth. It's in the Iran chapter of my book. Publishing a photo/written memoir is a great way to go beyond the surface and give a wider, deeper view of people in peace and in conflict.Read More
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World This is a photo I took for Time Magazine in Nablus, in the West Bank, in 1988. It's in the Palestinians, a chapter in my book Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World. I lived in Gaza for two years between the fall of 1992 and winter 1995. My book took about 20 years to make, including the photographs, editing and writing. It's a memoir....
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World This is Khial Ali, a Kurdish bride. She was 17 years old when I took this picture near Marivan, Iran for a cover story I did for National Geographic Magazine about Iran (July 1999 issue.) There is a chapter on Iran in my book Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World. My grandfather was from Iran. Photo Copyright Alexandra Avakian 2009.
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
See my story in today's New York Times Lens:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/01
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Alexandra Avakian has led a fearless life, covering uprisings, civil war, famine and genocide. What she discovered in the shower one day, however, chilled her.
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
Welcome to my slide show/signing at Fall for the Book book festival on Sept 22!
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Fall for the Book Festival in the Washington DC metropolitan area - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and
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National Geographic photographer Alexandra Avakian comes to Fall for the Book on Tuesday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m. for a slide presentation and discussion related to her new book Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World. ...
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
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At the Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival, we met up with Contact Press Images photographer Alexandra Avakian, who published this year a diary on her travels in Muslim countries over the past 20 years. "Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World" is published by Focal Point.
Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World
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A photo from the exhibit Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World, based on my book published by National Geographic
