Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching, Western Kentucky University

Western Kentucky University

Invites you to attend an evening with Ozier Muhammad, award-winning photographer for The New York Times.

Nov.18th at 7:30 PM in Van Meter Auditorium for

“Through the Lens: A Photojournalist’s Account of the War in Iraq.”

Mr. Muhammad will share his photographs and discuss his experiences of being embedded with the Marines, as well as the experience of other photojournalists covering the conflict in Iraq before and after The President declared that all hostility had ceased.

Ozier will also be available in the lobby of Van Meter at 7:00 PM for book signings. Copies of his books are available at the WKU bookstore or at the time of the book signing.

A short Q & A session will follow

**Ozier Muhammad, New York Times Award-Winning Photojournalist**
	Ozier Muhammad graduated in 1972 with a B.A., in photojournalism from Columbia College in Chicago. He has been a photojournalist since 1972. His first job was as a staff photographer at Ebony Magazine, he later joined the The Charlotte Observer in 1978, went to Newsday in 1980 and has been at the New York Times since 1992. In 1985 Ozier shared the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting with Josh Friedman and Dennis Bell, for a series of reports titled “Africa, The desperate Continent,” for Newsday. For that report, Ozier also won the Polk award in News Photography. The report was about drought and famine and its political consequences. Ozier was a Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University in 1986-87. Ozier has covered Africa since 1974. First for Ebony, going to Dar Es Salaam for the Sixth Pan African Congress, and in 1977 to Lagos Nigeria for the 2nd World Festival of African Arts and Crafts, FESTAC. Other locations for Newsday were: Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Kenya. For The Times: the first non-racial election in South Africa, in which Nelson Mandela became president. Ozier has also covered stories in Guinee (Amadou Diallo’s funeral), the presidential election in Nigeria in 1999, and an alleged al Qaeda training camp in central Somalia in 2001. Ozier was in Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban and a year later was embedded with the marines during the war in Iraq. Ozier has also covered stories in Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica. Recently Ozier returned from the Congo. Ozier was born in Chicago in 1950, and lives in New York City and is married to Lisa Redd, a former Newsday reporter. They have two children, Khalil and Pilar.

Sponsored by The New York Times in conjunction with The American Democracy Project .

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