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Apr 2024
1h 18m

CHRISTINA ASSI - Behind the Camera (Ep.4...

Ronnie Chatah
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A conversation with Christina Assi - photojournalist and photo editor at AFP. Taped live at Aaliya's Books. Made special with the audience that joined. Covering Christina's lifelong passion for photojournalism, an initial false comfort of wartime coverage along the Lebanese-Israeli border, surviving the October 13 Israeli attack that took Issam Abdallah's ... Show More
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