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Claude Salhani was born on 25 March, 1952 in Cairo, Egypt, is a Photographer. Discover Claude Salhani's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Photographer, journalist, editor, author
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 25 March 1952
Birthday 25 March
Birthplace Cairo, Egypt
Date of death August 13, 2022
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality Egypt

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2022

Claude Salhani died age 70 on August 13, 2022, at his home in Paris, France, and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

1995

In 1995, US Ambassador David D. Pearce called him "one of the premier photographers of the war in Lebanon." In 2022, UPI colleague Martin Sieff called him "the Willie Mays of journalism – he could – and did do everything well."

1990

Occasionally, Salhani himself appeared as an actor in history, for example Thomas L. Friedman's 1990 book From Beirut to Jerusalem and David Petraeus and Nigel West's 2016 Spycraft Secrets.

1987

Salhani contributed personal photos to US military historians including former US Marine Benis M. Frank in his 1987 book U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 and former US Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer in his 2003 book Warrior Soul.

1983

Claude Salhani (March 25, 1952 – August 13, 2022) was an Egyptian-born 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.

1981

Salhani had many narrow escapes on the front lines. In 1981, Salhani inside the Reuters building when Israeli artillery hit it and escaped with minor injury. On another occasion, a Palestinian splinter group detained him; Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization secured his release. In 1983, while photographing the 1983 bombing of USMC HQ barracks in Beirut, he also helped dig out survivors.

1974

The US National Portrait Gallery has a photograph of Yasser Arafat by Salhani dated 1974.

1970

In 1970, age 18, Salhani joined An-Nahar and L'Orient-Le Jour newspapers in Beirut. He covered clashes between Jordanian and Palestinian forces ("Black September") in Jordan. By 1973, he had joined Sygma photo agency, whose clients included Time and Newsweek magazines, and landed photos on at least two covers of Time (1973, 1975). He worked for Sygma until 1980. In 1981, he became head of UPI Photos for the Middle East; in 1983, he covered the bombing of US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. In 1984, he joined Reuters news agency as head of Reuters Photos for Europe, Middle East, and Africa; he lived in Brussels, London, and Paris. In the early 1990s, he moved to Washington, first to head US operations for Sipa Press and then to rejoin UPI as head of Photos through the rest of the 1990s and in 2000 international editor. He also served as editor for the Middle East Times and the Washington Times. Later, Salhani became a media analyst for major newspapers and an international television station. He contributed to publications by The National (UAE), the Cato Institute, and American Foreign Service Association. He also appeared on C-SPAN television.

Since the 1970s, Salhani's photos, editorials, and personal recollections also became sources for other books on history and policy, as well as for his own memoir, Black September to Desert Storm (1998).

1952

Claude Salhani was born on March 25, 1952, in Cairo, Egypt. He received a BA in Journalism from the American University of Beirut. In the 2000s, he earned an MA in Conflict Analysis and Management from Royal Roads University.