Book Talk: Cengiz Yar

Photographer and editor Cengiz Yar presents his first monograph in conversation with journalist and producer Sangar Khaleel.

The book explores the overwhelming destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul, within the context of its history and unique, now largely ruined, architecture. It questions the cost of the fight against ISIS and the global war on terror with a focus on the lives and city that bore the brunt of its destructive force.The photographs were made between 2015 and 2023.

The book includes a foreword from Azmat Khan, an essay by Campbell MacDiarmid, and a pullout map. It is designed by Jason Koxvold of Gnomic Book and written in both English and Arabic.

Bios:

Cengiz Yar (@cengizya) is a documentary photographer and editor based in El Paso, Texas. He has worked in visual journalism for over a decade, from reporting in the field to building groundbreaking online packages. He is the inaugural recipient of the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a Dart Center Ochberg Fellow in Journalism and Trauma.

Sangar Khaleel (b. 1989) is a journalist and producer based in Iraqi Kurdistan. He primarily works on stories for publications like the New York Times, NPR, and the New Yorker in Iraq and Syria and was awarded the 2019 Kurt Schork Memorial News Fixer Award for his work covering the rise and fall of ISIS.

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