Alexandra Avakian: "Arafat called me a troublemaker but allowed me to photograph"

21:57, November 7, 2012

Alexandra Avakian, a photojournalist who has worked with the National Geographic Society since 1995, has come to Armenia.

Today she was on hand at the opening of her photographic and written memoir, Windows of the Soul: My Journeys in the Muslim World, exhibition at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (NPAK) in Yerevan.

Photojournalist Alexandra Avakian has covered many of the most important issues of her time. Her photographs have been published in National Geographic, Time, LIFE, the New York Times Magazine, and many others in the U.S. and throughout Europe.  Read more... (527 words)

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