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Rawiya (she who tells a story) in Arabic – presents an insider’s view of a region in flux balancing its contradictions while reflecting on social and political issues and stereotypes. A collective of women documentary photographers from the Middle East, 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.〔 Each photographer has extensive experience covering hard news, but felt that important social and political stories were still going unseen and wanted a platform to share them. This has translated into a body of work that spans the spectrum of subjects from the tender portraits and documentation of Egyptian “oriental” dancers, women struggling to gain access to literacy in various countries, and cheeky challenges to perceptions of gender roles, both within the Middle East and to an international audience. The creation seed of the collective began with conversations between Newsha Tavakolian, Tamara Abdul Hadi, and Dalia Khamissy in Beirut in 2009, 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. Rawiya means “she who tells a story” in Arabic.〔 == References== * http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/10448/she-who-tells-a-story_interview-with-the-photograp *. http://www.bazaar-magazine.com/baz/bazaar/index.php?show=eIndex&show_filter=view&action=article&art_id=ART00000001417 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rawiya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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