I use drawings as a narrative language of expression. Empty Skies is a video animation inspired by the following poem: “I am walking alone without feats, as river water does./ Half crazy, I am. Is it not nearly enough for you?/ This madness rises out of my love and weeping/ I became a source...

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On 2 February I started taking pictures of the people’s uprising in Egypt. These images show different formations of the masses, how from far away the people in the masses do not seem to have an individuality. These are compared with the images of close-ups of people to show that these ma...

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In this video, I re-animated the ancient deity Anubis, god of the underworld, and made him move through the declining urban architecture and environment of Cairo. The character probes the city and its inhabitants with their social and political obsessions.

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The Sahara desert is not the old Western fantasy fuelled by the tourist industry and photography – a kind of archaic pause in the mad race toward modernity, a mausoleum, a myth drained of any substance. In fact, it is a human and ecological reality tied to the future of the world, it is a s...

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One has to have experienced oppression in order to understand and savour the real meaning of freedom of speech. On 14 January 2011 and the following days, I took photos of my fellow citizens who were demanding democracy in downtown Tunis, in front of the Ministry of the Interior. Althoug...

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Migratory movements have produced “no man’s lands” throughout history, but never more than today, due to worldwide demographic expansion and growing urban sprawl. My photos show some of these residual zones, documenting their past and questioning their future: Tiberias in Israel, ...

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The city of Gabès in southern Tunisia is the world’s only oasis located on the seashore. It was a flourishing agricultural and commercial centre in ancient times, as well as under Carthaginian, Byzantine and Arab domination. Nowadays the large phosphate factory in Gabès has turned the oasis...

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In Dakar, five minutes of rain suffice to flood the suburbs of Pikine, Rufisque and Guédiawaye, which sprouted anarchically on former swamp land. In 2010, the rainfall reached the highest levels in thirty years. The goal of my photo-story is to show the everyday lives of people who sur...

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I use my cultural roots – Islam, Sufism and ancient Egyptian culture – as a springboard of exploration in the ocean of the contemporary world. Through my Sufi and ancient mythology readings, personal meetings with Sufi masters and on-site exploration, I am able to absorb a deep visual and phil...

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I like to record social and religious phenomena related to Islamic-Arabic culture. Based on my own experiences, I address the issue of women, their future, their liberation and the norms applied to them, notably through traditional marriage. When I was eight years old my mother began assemb...

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