Claude Salhani

[6] In 1981, he became head of UPI Photos for the Middle East; in 1983, he covered the bombing of US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.

[1][5] On another occasion, a Palestinian splinter group detained him; Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization secured his release.

[14] He was a mentor to many photographers and journalists, including UPI and Reuters colleagues Martin Sieff,[5] Dalal Saoud,[1] Aline Manoukian,[7] and Jack Dabaghian,[6] all of whom paid tribute to him.

Claude Salhani died age 70 on August 13, 2022, in Paris, France,[1][3][5] and a service was held at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

[15] Since the 1970s, Salhani's photos, editorials, and personal recollections also became sources for other books on history and policy,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] as well as for his own memoir, Black September to Desert Storm (1998).

"[5] Occasionally, Salhani himself appeared as an actor in history, for example Thomas L. Friedman's 1990 book From Beirut to Jerusalem[28] and David Petraeus and Nigel West's 2016 Spycraft Secrets.