Author L'Œil de la Photographie

This is a series on the Ghanaian slum Agbogbloshie. People and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives. The UN Environment Program has stated that Western…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…