Title: Palestine: a photographic journey
Photographer(s): George Baramki Azar
Writer(s): Ann Mosely Lesch
Designer(s): Barbara Jellow
Publisher(s): University of California Press., Berkeley and Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Year: 1991
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Language(s): English
Pages: 126
Size: 21,5 x 28 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Saik Wah Press Pte., Singapore
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Palestine, 1981-1988
ISBN:
From 1981 to 1987 George Azar chronicled the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the destruction of the U.S. Marine compound, the civil insurrection in West Beirut, the Iran-Iraq War and the interfactional war among the Palestinians in North Lebanon. He saw gun battles and deaths so numerous that his memory of them has become a blur. Leaving the horror of Beirut, Damour, and Tripoli behind, he resisted the thought of going back. But in early January 1988, news reports showed the people of the refugee camps, the villages, and the towns in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip taking to the streets. He returned to the occupied territories later that month and began taking these pictures.