I am a self-taught Qatari–Egyptian artist working with analogue photography and alternative image-making techniques. I’m interested in how memory shifts over time, shaping my interpretation of the past. My practice allows me to imagine the lives of my ancestors and the places they called home. Through the camera, I can invite them into the frame, building a visual dialogue that collapses time and allows us to meet.
While many of the historical methods I use were born in Europe, I reclaim them through both motif and material. I’m drawn to plant-based photographic methods, choosing materials that I source locally like coffee and henna, because they’re accessible, sustainable, and tied to my personal history and cultural rituals. In particular, I’m interested in gendered plants used by women in beauty, medicine and crafts, working in ways that honour the environment rather than exploit it. I embrace imperfections and slowness, resisting the speed and uniformity that capitalism demands.
Outside of photography, I write and direct short films. My work has been screened in Qatar, France, the Netherlands, and Bosnia, and my next project has been awarded a grant by the Doha Film Institute.
My artist CV is available on request.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2025 | Doha Film Institute, Qatari Film Fund Short Film Grant, Qatar
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Photo Fair Shanghai, 7 - 10 May 2026 (upcoming)
Photo World Art Dubai, 23 - 26 April 2026
Zari Gallery Art and Photo Prize Exhibition, 17 - 27 November 2025 (London, UK)
Editions Gallery, The Grain Remains, 27 August - 25 September 2025 (Qatar)
Wet plate collodion on tin
13 x 18 cm
Temporal Dialogues is part of a series of self-portraits in which I embody my grandmother through costume and gesture. By placing myself in her image, I imagine the life she lived and her emotional world. I collapse the distance between our generations, creating a visual conversation across time.
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Silver nitrate and soil samples from family gardens on filter paper
15 cm diameter
Roots is a series of soil chromatographies — a technique borrowed from scientific analysis that uses silver nitrate as a catalyst. leaving a pattern of rings that reveals the soil's mineral composition.
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Mordançage emulsion lift on resin coated darkroom paper
20 x 28 cm
Obscura is a series made using mordançage, a bleach etch process that simultaneously destroys and transforms an image.
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Henna- and hibiscus-toned cyanotype on paper with graphite
20 x 28 cm
This series began from a question posed to my aunts while we working on documenting our family’s history; “do you still have your wedding veil?”.
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Tea-toned cyanotype on paper
29 x 41 cm
“Jasmine” from Herbarium [series] (2025)
Tea-toned cyanotype on paper
29 x 41 cm
Herbarium is an ongoing series that looks at how plants hold cultural memory, and how they mark the significant moments in a woman's life.
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