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Micah Garen is a photographer, documentary filmmaker and writer, and founder of Four Corners Media.
On August 13, 2004, Garen and his Iraqi translator, Amir Doushi, were kidnapped and held hostage in Nasiriya in southern Iraq. On August 19, 2004 a video aired on al-Jazeera in which Garen appeared sitting on the floor in front of masked insurgents with weapons making demands for his release. His captors eventually turned Garen and his translator over to representatives of Moqtada al-Sadr in Nasiriya. They were released unharmed on August 22, 2004.
His writing and photography has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, USNews, Newsweek, the Associated Press, Archaeology Magazine and "The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad".
His documentary film work has appeared on the New York Times Digital, Financial Times, PBS and APTN.
His first book "American Hostage", published by Simon and Schuster in October 2005, received starred reviews on both Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. Micah has also illustrated two Arabic language textbooks published by Yale University Press.
Garen is an alumnus of Cornell University where he studied landscape architecture and Near Eastern Languages.
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