I am a photographer, filmmaker, visual artist living in Cairo, Egypt.
I like to work on documenting daily life, especially in historical cities.
and I am used to going on tours to explore
I work in the fields of photography, film making, Journalism, media training and human rights advocacy.
I believe that art and cultural initiatives can make huge positive shifts to communities as well I believe in the power of photography and how an image can make a positive change to society.
After my graduation from the faculty of Arts mass communication and journalism department in 2008, I worked in diverse fields simultaneously, journalism, Art, cultural project management.
as well I got experience in the field of filmmaking through getting a grant from the Egyptian film center to fund my first short documentary film “the smell of the city”: https://vimeo.com/38177266
and participated as a facilitator in the human rights education program at Cairo Institute for human rights since 2010 and worked as well as researcher on "Media and the parliamentary elections in Egypt 2010" research project.
from August 2012 till March 2017 I worked as a multimedia officer at Aswat Masriya, Thomson Reuters foundation nonprofit News website responsible for making multimedia content about Egyptian political, social and cultural daily affairs and to administrate and train a team of interns and stringers working with the website making stories from all over the country.
And now I am working as a media officer at Tadamon - The Egyptian Refugee Multicultural Council as a media officer focusing on supporting the refugee community the organization work with through media, media training, helping other media institution wants to make reports about our projects and making partnerships with other organizations.
I won many national, regional and international prizes in the field of photography, filmmaking and essay writing.
Most Important was UNESCO's “words of tolerance” photo contest prize in 2016 and the United Nations Alliance of civilization conference photo contest 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan.