She has published in such magazines as Time, Life, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, and Audubon, as well as in European magazines such as Geo, Stern, FAZ, and Paris Match. Avakian has traveled extensively in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean, where she covered the crisis in Haiti. She worked in the former U.S.S.R. for Time from 1990 to 1992, and then lived among the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip for more than two years. “Gaza: Where Peace Walks a Tightrope” in the September 1996 issue, is Avakian’s first assignment for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. . . .