Children of the Revolution

Date
Mon June 16th 2008, 6:00pm
Event Sponsor
Iranian Studies Program
Location
Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113
Children of the Revolution
Speaker(s):
Iason Athanasiadis

"Writer, photographer and television producer, Iason Athanasiadis has been covering the Middle East and the southeast Mediterranean since 1999. He studied Arabic and Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University and Persian and Contemporary Iranian Studies at Tehran's School of International Studies. Athanasiadis lived in Iran from 2004-2007, covering conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Lebanon for U.S., British and international media including the Times, the Christian Science Monitor, American Prospect, British Journalism Review and the South China Morning Post. He covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq from Qatar for al-Jazeera,the 2004 Athens Olympics for BBC World and the 2006 Israeli-Hizbullah war in Lebanon as a freelancer. At the same time, his photography has been featured in solo exhibitions in Germany, Greece and Iran, and his work published in Der Spiegel and the Los Angeles Times, among other newspapers and magazines. A native of Greece, Athanasiadis was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2007-08."

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