Salhani, Claude

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Name (Latin)
Salhani, Claude
Name (Arabic)
صالحاني، كلود
Date of birth
1952-03-25
Date of death
2022-08-13
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 233429863
Wikidata: Q12235829
Library of congress: n 97121168
Sources of Information
  • Amazon.com, viewed on 05-29-2015:(Claude Salhani is an Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist working in over eighty-six countries, author, and political analyst. He has appeared on more than forty networks including CNN, Fox and BBC. His work has been published in the world's top newspapers, from "The New York Times," to the "Middle East Times." He is the author of Black September to Desert Storm; While the Arab World Slept: the impact of the Bush years on the Middle East, and contributing author of The Iraq War and also the author of Islam Without a Veil. He now lives in Laval, Quebec, Canada)
  • Black September to Desert Storm, 1998:t.p. (Claude Salhani) p. [263] (director of the UPI NewsPicture Service in Washington, D.C.)
  • Islam without a veil, 2011ECIP data (Salhani, Claude; b. Mar. 25, 1952)
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Wikipedia description:

Claude Salhani (March 25, 1952 – August 13, 2022) was born in Cairo. He was a Lebanese, French and American photographer for United Press International (UPI) and Reuters news agencies, later head of UPI Photos and UPI Foreign Desk Editor as well as policy expert and author, best known for his photographic reportage of the 23 October 1983 Beirut barracks bombings on the United States Marines. During his journalism career, Salhani covered Black September, the Lebanon Civil War, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Dhofar War (Oman), the Iran–Iraq War, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Gulf War, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Czech Velvet Revolution, and the Iraq War (Operation Enduring Freedom) as well as the wider Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

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