Elle Kurancid is a Canadian literary journalist, story editor, and docufiction scriptwriter who lives in the Mediterranean region. Since 2014, she has collaborated with over a dozen documentarians on sociopolitical stories based in Egypt, Yemen, Greece, Kenya, Ireland, India, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Rwanda, Vietnam, France, England, and Canada. Her website is <a href="http://www.ellekurancid.com">www.ellekurancid.com</a>.

Elle Kurancid

Walaa Alshaer is a freelance documentary photographer based in the United Arab Emirates. Since 2013, she has worked on several long-term multimedia projects with NGOs in Africa and Asia, as well as on a series of self-directed photo essays, from Uganda and Vietnam’s orphanages to Bangladesh’s refugee camps to India’s perilous coalfields. What unites her work is a common interest in portraying the life stories and interior lives of the people she meets, capturing the emotional and psychological aspects of larger social, cultural, and environmental issues. Her website is <a href="http://www.walaaalshaer.com">www.walaaalshaer.com</a>.

Walaa Alshaer

When the Dust Won’t Settle: Stories of Syrian War and Earthquake Survivors

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Fadi Al-Shami is a self-taught Syrian photojournalist. Since 2013, he has documented bombings, battles, demonstrations, displacement, and daily life across the northwest province of Idlib, where he is currently based, as well as on the frontlines of Jobar, his home neighborhood in Damascus. Follow his visual storytelling practice at www.instagram.com/fadi_al_shami_jo.

Fadi Al-Shami

“This Should Not Be Repeated”: Civilian Devastation, from Syria to Ukraine

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

Hamada Elrasam is a freelance photojournalist and videographer based in Cairo. From the painful legacies of the Egyptian revolution and the Rwandan genocide, to the frontline of Europe’s migration crisis on the Greek island of Lesvos, he has dedicated his practice to the advancement of social justice and human rights. His in-depth photo project&nbsp; “Traces of the Conflict” was produced during the first cycle of the Magnum-affiliated Arab Documentary Photography Program. His website is www.hamadaelrasam.com.

Hamada Elrasam

Glory to the Unknowns: A Visual Tribute to the World’s Poor and Vulnerable in the Time of COVID-19

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Elham Hassan is a Yemeni writer currently residing in Sana’a. Her work has appeared in international and local medias, from the&nbsp;Guardian&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Yemen Observer, where her articles on women empowerment were honored by the United Nations Population Fund in 2006. Guided by a deep passion for gender equality, human rights, and social justice she authored the 2013 book Women Moan in Silence: Short Stories About Everyday Life of Yemeni Women. She also founded the Yemeni Women Storyteller Club, which encourages her fellow countrywomen young and old to pen and publish their own stories. At present, she is co-writing the forthcoming photo-driven nonfiction book His Weapons Are Unwise: The War in Yemen From the Perspective of Yemeni Women.

Elham Hassan

Amira Al-Sharif is an independent Yemeni photojournalist with over 17 years of experience documenting the beauty and suffering of her beloved country. Her work has been published in Yemeni newspapers as well as internationally with National Geographic, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. She has received multiple prizes, fellowships, and nominations including from the World Press Photo Foundation, Women Photograph, Prince Claus Fund, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Samir Kassir Foundation, International Cities of Refuge Network, and Free Press Unlimited’s “Most Resilient Journalist Award.” She is an artist-in-residence at Cité internationale des arts in Paris.&nbsp;At present, she is co-writing the forthcoming photo-driven nonfiction book His Weapons Are Unwise: The War in Yemen From the Perspective of Yemeni Women.

Amira Al-Sharif

The Optimistic Crown Prince

One Worshipper Is Not Superior to Another

Marios Lolos is an Athens-based photojournalist and the President of the Union of Press Photographers of Greece.

Marios Lolos

Fascism Advisory in Effect

Predator of Press Freedom v. Prisoner of Conscience

<h4>Peter Blodau draws in situ, directly in front of his subject matter, and focuses on the immediacy of a scene, which helps him visually translate sound, smell, texture, and emotion. He has been drawing for well over 30 years, the majority of them spent working on various series in such places as Cuba, the United States, Greece, Italy, Germany, Ireland, England, Egypt, and most recently France. Born in Germany in 1967, Blodau moved to Ireland as a child and later attended art school in Limerick, where he would also teach one day. He currently teaches drawing at the German University in Cairo.</h4>

Peter Blodau

Reportage Art from the Calais Jungle: “A Sea of Tents Surrounds Me”

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Elle Kurancid is a Canadian literary journalist, story editor, and docufiction scriptwriter who lives in the Mediterranean region. Since 2014, she has collaborated with over a dozen documentarians on sociopolitical stories based in Egypt, Yemen, Greece, Kenya, Ireland, India, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Rwanda, Vietnam, France, England, and Canada. Her website is <a href="http://www.ellekurancid.com">www.ellekurancid.com</a>.