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Feb 03, 1959 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 65 years old
American photographer
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About George Azar
- George Azar (born February 3, 1959 in Philadelphia) is a Lebanese American photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.
- His photographs have appeared on the front pages of The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Economist, Saudi Aramco World and other leading publications.
- Since 2006 he and Mariam Shahin, have produced over 50 films for the international satellite news network, Al Jazeera.
- Azar has also produced several documentaries for the internet news channel Vice News, including "Crime and Punishment in Gaza", "Renegade Jewish Settlers" and 'The Islamic State vs Lebanon".
- Azar has covered the Middle East and Arab/Islamic culture since 1981 and is the subject of the CBS Emmy Award-winning news feature, Beirut Photographer.
- He was also profiled in the BBC's Firing Line.
- He was nominated for the 2007 Rory Peck Award for his film Gaza Fixer.
- His and fellow filmmaker Tom Evans' film Two Schools in Nablus also received great acclaim, winning the Japan Prize in Education in 2008, and the British Royal Television Society Education Award in 2009.
- In addition, Azar is the author and photographer of the critically acclaimed book Palestine: A Photographic Journey, and the photographer of Palestine: A Guide, written by Mariam Shahin. In addition to his work as a photojournalist and filmmaker, Azar is a historian and curator.
- His writing, photography and photo curation is on permanent display on the first three floors of San Francisco's historic U.S.
- Customhouse, and New York's International Center of Photography hosted Azar's 2002 curation of Bill Biggart's "Twin Towers", which marked the one-year anniversary of the tragedy.
- Azar commands unique insight into both the Arab world and the western perceptions and misperceptions of it, and has lectured on the subject at major universities including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Pepperdine and Harvard.
- Azar is currently a Photojournalist in Residence and a full-time instructor in Journalism and Digital Media at the American University of Beirut since Fall 2018-19.
