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Award Winning National Geographic Photographer Deeply Moved By Time In Muslim Lands By Wafa Unus
with the renowned magazine, most notably introducing its readers to the Muslim world in ways they had never been introduced before.
Muslim Link Staff Writer If a picture is worth a thousand words, seasoned photographer Lynn Abercrombie could fill a book. And that’s exactly what she did.
Tom Abercrombie spent 38 years with National Geographic beginning in 1956 and traveled to Japan, Cambodia, Tibet and Venezuela, Spain, Australia, Alaska and Brazil. Abercrombie is even credited as being the first civilian correspondent to ever document the South Pole.
Lynn Abercrombie presented her book entitled “Traveling the World for National Geographic” on March 23rd at the National Press Club. The book chronicles the decades her and her husband Tom Abercrombie, who worked for National Geographic and lived in Maryland, traveled the world and captured the nuances of the culture and people they encountered. It allows the readers a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of two companions whose lenses refocused their worldview and provided a glimpse into
Photographer Tom Abercrombie in an undated photo from National Geographic.
the most frigid corners of the globe. While Lynn is a institution in her own
right, her husband Tom, who died in 2006 at 75 years old, carved out a legacy
In a 1991 article published in National Geographic, Abercrombie recounted the year he spent traveling in the footsteps of famed 14th-century Arab explorer Ibn Battuta. The article titled “Ibn Battuta: Prince of Travelers” escorts the reader through 35 countries from Morocco to China. >> moved Pg 14
Congressional Hearing Highlights Plight of Indian Minorities, Gujarat Victims Narendra Modi To Remain Persona Non-Grata With No Change To Visa Status FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday March 22, 2012
response to an invitation by Commission Co-Chair Congressman Frank Wolf.
Indian American Muslim Council (http:// www.iamc.com) an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos has thanked Dr. Najid Hussain (son-in-law of slain Indian Parliamentarian Ahsan Jafri) and Dr. Angana Chatterji for their Congressional testimonies at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission today. The Commission held a hearing on Wednesday (March 21, 2012) on the plight of religious minorities in South Asia, at which Dr. Najid Hussain represented IAMC, in
Congressman Joseph Pitts’s pointed questions about Modi’s visa status made it clear that Modi remains a persona nongrata in the US. In 2005, the US State Department had revoked Narendra Modi’s US visa under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, for egregious violations of religious freedom. “The testimonies of both Dr. Hussain and Dr. Chatterji gave the Commission
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