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Mr. Omari is a Palestinian scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who is an expert on the Palestinians and the Arab world in general. Among other things, he served as an advisor to Yasser Arafat with respect to Israel. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 8:00 P.M. GHAITH AL-OMARI

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to pursue fine art photogra- phy. In 1969, Aaron Siskind accepted him to join the grad- uate photography program at Chicago’s Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technolo- gy. Wolinsky chose instead to work as a photojournalist for the Boston Globe and began showing his fine art work at Pucker Gallery in Boston. By 1972, Wolinsky was pro- viding freelance photographic essays to many national and international magazines, in- cluding Focus, Stern, Geo, Natural History, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. Cary Wolinsky is best known for his international, histori- cal, scientific and cultural pho- tographic essays published regularly in National Geo- graphic magazine since 1977. His numerous stories include; Sichuan: Where China Chang- es Course, Inside the Kremlin, Sir Joseph Banks, The Green- ing of the Empire, The Power of Writing, Australia A Harsh Awakening, New Eyes on the Oceans, Diamonds: The Real Story, What’s in Your Mind and, The Down Side of Being

In 2006 Wolinsky cofound- ed with performance artists Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio (identical triplets), the collab- orative TRIIIBE. Their photo- graphs, social commentary and identity tableaus, are prized by private and corpo- rate collectors. Wolinsky’s photographs have been print- ed in hundreds of publications throughout the world. His fine art prints have been acquired and exhibited by many muse- ums including Boston’s Muse- um of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the DeCordo- va Museum, the Duxbury Art Complex, The Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Lis- bon City Museum, the List Art Center at Brown University, the Natural History Museum London, the Rose Art Muse- um at Brandeis University, the Tikotin Museum in Haifa, and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.

Mr. Wolinsky is an award winning photo journalist with the National Geographic. He was here two years ago at Frenchman’s Creek and the lecture received outstanding reviews. CARY WOLINSKY grew up in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, a glass-manufacturing town, thirty-miles e st of Pittsburgh. His father had been a glider pilot and avid photographer in Europe throughout World War II. At age twelve, Cary Wolinsky was making photo- graphs of his hom town creating prints in his base- ment darkroom. In 1965 Wolinsky entered the photojournalism program at Boston University and was well situated to photograph the Vietnam era protests and campus unrest. He stud- ied with Carl Chiarenza who, along with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, encouraged him CARY WOLINSKY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 8:00 P.M.

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