Micah Garen
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Micah Garen is a photographer, documentary filmmaker and writer
, and founder of Four Corners Media.
On August 13, 2004, Garen and his Iraq
i translator, Amir Doushi, were kidnapped
and held hostage in Nasiriya in southern Iraq
. On August 19, 2004 a video
aired on al-Jazeera in which Garen appeared sitting on the floor in front of masked insurgent
s with weapons making demands for his release. His captors eventually turned Garen and his translator over to representatives of Moqtada al-Sadr in Nasiriya. They were released unharmed on August 22, 2004.
His writing and photography has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, USNews, Newsweek, the Associated Press, Archaeology Magazine and "The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad".
His documentary film work has appeared on the New York Times Digital, Financial Times, PBS and APTN.
His first book "American Hostage", published by Simon and Schuster in October 2005, received starred reviews on both Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. Micah has also illustrated two Arabic language textbooks published by Yale University Press.
Garen is an alumnus of Cornell University
where he studied landscape architecture and Near Eastern Languages.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, and founder of Four Corners Media.
On August 13, 2004, Garen and his Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i translator, Amir Doushi, were kidnapped
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...
and held hostage in Nasiriya in southern Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. On August 19, 2004 a video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
aired on al-Jazeera in which Garen appeared sitting on the floor in front of masked insurgent
Iraqi insurgency
The Iraqi Resistance is composed of a diverse mix of militias, foreign fighters, all-Iraqi units or mixtures opposing the United States-led multinational force in Iraq and the post-2003 Iraqi government...
s with weapons making demands for his release. His captors eventually turned Garen and his translator over to representatives of Moqtada al-Sadr in Nasiriya. They were released unharmed on August 22, 2004.
His writing and photography has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, USNews, Newsweek, the Associated Press, Archaeology Magazine and "The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad".
His documentary film work has appeared on the New York Times Digital, Financial Times, PBS and APTN.
His first book "American Hostage", published by Simon and Schuster in October 2005, received starred reviews on both Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. Micah has also illustrated two Arabic language textbooks published by Yale University Press.
Garen is an alumnus of Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
where he studied landscape architecture and Near Eastern Languages.