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Tanya Habjouqa (Born in Jordan, 1975) is a documentary photographer, educator, and journalist whose work focuses on issues of social, gender, and human rights in the Middle East. Tanya is a founding member of the Middle East's first all-female photo collective, Rawiya, and a member of the NOOR collective, which documents moments of war, famine, disaster, and political unrest across the globe. Her photo book, Occupied Pleasures, won her the 2014 World Press Photo award and in 2015 was praised inTIME magazine and the Smithsonian. She is a mentor to grant-recipients from the Magnum Foundation’s “Emerging Arab Photographer Documentary Fund”, the Prince Claus Foundation, and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. Tanya received her MA for Global Media with an emphasis on Middle East Politics at the University of London SOAS, and is now based in East Jerusalem.

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