Rawiya

Rawiya (Arabic: راوية‎, meaning "female teller") is a collective of women documentary photographers from the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa). Today its members are Myriam Abdelaziz (Cairo), Tamara Abdul Hadi (Beirut), Laura Boushnak (Sarajevo), and Tanya Habjouqa (East Jerusalem). It is the first cooperative of its kind with only female photographers, from the Middle East.[1]

Newsha Tavakolian got together with Tamara Abdul Hadi and Dalia Khamissy in Beirut in 2009 with the idea of the collective, thereafter Boushnak and Habjouqa joined the conversation and Rawiya was born. In August 2011, following the Egyptian revolution, Myriam Abdelaziz joined the group. The collective made its official debut at the FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby, U.K. in March 2011, which lead to international exhibitions across the Greater Middle East, Europe, and the United States.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Megan Gibson (November 3, 2011). "Rawiya: Photography Collective Finds Strength in Numbers". TIME, LightBox. Retrieved 2014-09-15.

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