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Aline Manoukian

Portrait of Aline Manoukian

Aline Manoukian studied the history of photography in California. In 1983, she covered the Lebanese conflict as a photojournalist for the Lebanese daily newspaper The Daily Star.

In 1985, she joined the Reuters news agency and later became head of the photo department, managing a team of staff and correspondents while covering the Lebanese conflict.

In 1989, she moved to Paris, France, where she pursued her career as a photographer and later as a picture editor.

From 2010 to 2013, she was president of ANI, the French association of picture editors. In 2017, she became director of the newly created non-profit organisation Beirut Center of Photography.

In 2018, she joined the Agence France-Presse (AFP) MENA regional bureau in Nicosia, Cyprus, where she currently lives, as a picture editor.


Session in the ARC: Photography and Visual Formats in Lebanon in the 19th Century – 2024-2025. Semester 1

Black-and-white photograph: a photographer, camera around her neck, walking among young armed fighters in a field