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= Tanya Habjouqa =

Tanya Habjouqa (born 1975 in Amman, Jordan) is an award-winning documentary photographer primarily interested in gender, social, and human rights issues in the Middle East. She is represented by NOOR, a photojournalism and documentary collective dedicated to covering contemporary global issues. Habjouqa was awarded the World Press Photo award in 2014 for her publication Occupied Pleasures, which was praised by Time and the Smithsonian as one of the best photo books of 2015. She served as a mentor for Magnum Foundation's Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Prince Claus Foundation. Habjouqa is a co-founder of Rawiya, the first all female photo collective of the Middle East. She is currently based in East Jerusalem and lectures "Narrative and National Identity in Photography" at Al Quds Bard University.