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Windows of the Soul My Journeys in the Muslim World

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ISBN-10: 1426203209

ISBN-13: 9781426203206

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alexandra Avakian

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She lived and worked for two years in the Gaza strip, always in Islamic dress, once beaten bloody by Hamas. On three occasions a Palestinian arms dealer tried to recruit her to be a spy. For six terrifying months in Somalia she was pinned down by sniper fire each day on the way to her hotel. She careened across the snowy Tien-Shen Mountains with Islamic fundamentalists in an ancient Lada, only to be detained and tossed out by the Uzbek KGB. All the while, she captured some of the most important stories of our time--the famine in Sudan, the violence in Gaza and Somalia, the daily life of Hezbollah. She traveled extensively with Yasser Arafat as one of the only non-Arab photographers given…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 10.00" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.882