PhotographyFestivals

Sama Alshaibi was born in 1973 in Basra, Iraq, to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother. She is now a naturalized U.S. citizen and associate professor of photography at the University…

Steve Sabella, a Berlin-based artist who uses photography and photographic installation as his principle modes of expression, was born in Jerusalem in 1975. He studied photography at the School of…

Mohamed Abdul Latif Kanoo was born, in Manama, Bahrain, in 1963. He is an artist, curator, and co-owner of Ghaf Gallery, established in 2006, the first independent visual arts space in…

Noel Jabbour was born in Nazareth, Palestine, in 1970. She studied art and photography at the Hadassah College of Technology and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She is…

Samer Mohdad was born in 1964 in Bzebdine, Lebanon, to a father who was an engineer and a mother who was a poet. After the Lebanese Civil War broke out, his…

Youssef Nabil was born in Cairo in 1972, and has lived and worked in Paris and New York since 2002. He began his photography career in 1992 by staging tableaux in…

FotoFest, the International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Arts, has launch a newly curated exhibition dedicated to contemporary Arab video, photography and mixed-media art for its fifteenth biennial. View From Inside,…

Photojournalist Ahmed Jadallah was born in Palestine in 1970. He is the oldest of four brothers, who are also award-winning photographers. Jadallah studied science and worked as a teacher before joining a…

Often referred to as the "Father of Conceptualism in Saudi Arabia," Faisal Samra was born in Bahrain in 1956 he is a Saudi national. He graduated from École national supérieure des Beaux-Arts…

Born in Giza, Egypt, in 1961, Hazem Taha Hussein is an associate professor of visual communication design in the Faculty of Applied Arts at Helwan University, Cairo; chairman of the advertising department…