Three Days Until Cairo
The events of January 2011 in Tahrir Square, Egypt, and the subsequent toppling of the Mubarak regime lit a surprising spark within me; the warmth of pride. Pride that I did not expect to feel.read more
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Humble Beginnings: Rod Al Farg
The photograph above is the door to the house where my grandfather was born in 1923 Cairo, shortly after the Egyptian monarcy was installed under British Imperial rule. It is located in a neighborhood...
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Minor Detour: Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
So after a few days of interviews and trouping around historic areas we decided to take a detour and visit the Townhouse Gallery in the Mechanic's district in Cairo. William Wells founded the Townhouse...
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Comparing Apples and Oranges: Egyptian Elections
The Egyptian parliamentary elections currently underway, have been charged with being purposely overly complicated to deter voters. However, there appear to be some efforts to simplify the process....
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Darb El Ahmar Police Station
Filming in Egypt was no easy task, for there was an atmosphere of suspicion that I did not expect. My mind was still entrapped in the euphoric freedom that exploded during the early days of the...
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When I visited Kuwait, as I was flipping through the photographs that inspired this project, I found an old photo-album of scans of the pictures. In this album my grandfather had annotated each photo...
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Villa Hazem, Kuwait
It is unclear when exactly my grandfather moved to Kuwait. My memory of the story was that he escaped Cairo by boat through Alexandria to Kuwait in 1952, just before the Free Officers Revolution, and...
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The Process: Drafts in Storytelling
I thought I would share a couple of my attempts to start to put the material I had gathered over break together.The cover photograph is a collage, a technique I used to storyboard, I found it easier to...
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