Laura Boushnak
Palestine

The Arab Documentary Photography Program - 2015
A Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer, whose work focuses on women, literacy and education reform in the Arab world. For her ongoing series ‘I Read, I Write’, she photographed girls and women changing their lives through education in Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, Jordan and Tunisia. Boushnak is a TED Fellow, and the co-founder of the RAWIYA collective, a photography cooperative of female photographers from the Middle East.