The Middle East Institute’s Arts & Culture Program and International Arts & Artists’ Hillyer Arts Space are pleased to host an artist talk with award-winning Jordanian photographer and journalist Tanya Habjouqa. The program is presented as part of the exhibition, She Who Tells A Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, on view until July 31st at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
In her series Occupied Pleasures and Women of Gaza, Habjouqa showcases life under siege and occupation, exploring how these circumstances affect people’s personal space and aspirations. Habjouqa will tell the stories behind some of her photographs, and will tackle issues of representation and misrepresentation and the interaction between traditional media and social media in this space.
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