George Azar

Quick Facts

Full Name	George Azar
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1959(1959-02-03)
Age	65
Birthplace	Philadelphia
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Aquarius

George Azar Biography

George Azar is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on February 3, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Azar was born in Philadelphia on the 3rd of February 1959. He is being the third child born to George Azar, Jr. and Gladys Saddic, both the children of Lebanese immigrants. Azar has three siblings: one older sister, Madelynn and two brothers younger than him, Michael and Habib. At the age of eight, young, the family relocated into San Diego, California, where he stayed for the rest years of his youth.

In the middle of summer, stunned and agitated, Azar decided to see the violence first-hand that he had read about in the media. So, in September of 1981 Azar set off for Beirut along with his friend and college roommate Michael Nelson. They travelled by bus through Europe to Lebanon in hopes of working in photojournalism. They finally made it to Beirut in November of 1981. And it was here and the following year that Azar’s professional career started.

During the early days of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, Azar was trapped under an intense bombardment, abandoned by his driver in a small town on the Lebanese coast, called Jieh. He was covering the war for Newsweek. When the Israelis overran the town there was a brief, but intense fight. Jieh was left in ruins.

When the First Intifada erupted in Palestine in the winter of 1987, Azar was living in the United States, working as a photographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He had left the horror of Beirut, Damour and Tripoli behind almost two years before and resisted the thought of ever going back. But as he watched images on the news of the people of the villages, refugee camps and towns of Palestine taking to the streets, protected by nothing save the cloth of their keffiyehs, and armed with stones, he finally decided to return to Palestine. The photos he took during that stay in Palestine would become his first book, the critically acclaimed Palestine: A Photographic Journey, published in 1991.

After arriving in Beirut, Azar became a journalist, reporting on in the Lebanese War as a stringer for the Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI) and later, for Gamma, a French photographer agency Gamma. From 1981 until 1989, Azar covered in detail the Israeli invading of Lebanon as well as demolition of the U.S. Marine compound, the civil uprising that took place in West Beirut, the vicious inter-factional conflict among those who are Palestinians and the Palestinians in North Lebanon, The Druze-Maronite conflict at the Chouf mountains, and the Syrian blockade in Mount Lebanon.

George Azar Net Worth

George Azar is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, George Azar 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

George Azar (born February 3 1959, in Philadelphia) is Azar is a Lebanese American photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. His photos have been featured prominently on front-pages of The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Economist, Saudi Aramco World as well as other top publications. Since 2006, he as well as Mariam Shahin have created more than 50 films for world-wide satellite news network, Al Jazeera. Azar has also made a variety of documentaries for Vice News, an online network of news channels Vice News, including “Crime and Punishment in Gaza”, “Renegade Jewish Settlers” and “The Islamic State vs Lebanon”. Azar has been covering in the Middle East and Arab/Islamic culture since 1981. He is also the subject of CBS’s Emmy Award-winning news program, Beirut Photographer. He also was featured on broadcaster BBC’s Firing Line. He was nominated in 2007 for the Rory Peck Award for his film Gaza Fixer. He and co-director Tom Evans’ film Two Schools in Nablus was also praised with great enthusiasm and was awarded the Japan Prize in Education in 2008 and an award from the British Royal Television Society Education Award in 2009. Additionally, Azar is the writer as well as photographer for the highly well-reviewed work Palestine: A Photographic Journey as well as the photographer for Palestine: A Guide, written by Mariam Shahin.

Between 1977 and 1981, Azar attended the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as The University of California, Berkeley in which he earned an undergraduate degree in Arts with a major in Political Science and History. He was a graduate of Magna Laude. Laude.

Then in July 1981, the Israeli Air Force bombed a neighborhood in Beirut called Fakhani, sending stacks of 700 pound bombs slamming into densely packed apartment buildings. Some 400 civilians were killed by the explosions or crushed by the weight of the fallen buildings. Azar read about it in a newspaper, clipped the short article, and taped it onto the refrigerator door so his friends could see it. Throughout the summer he would look at this article and become overwhelmed. This Israeli bombing campaign in West Beirut was part of the early stages of what would eventually transform into the 1982 Lebanon War. Azar writes, “I could imagine the press coverage that would have followed if 400 Jewish civilians been killed in a Palestinian attack. Yet, in 1981, the killing of 400 Arab civilians by Israel hardly caused a ripple in the American public mind.”

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