Tanya Habjouqa

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Tanya Habjouqa (born 1975) is a Jordanian American photographer based in East Jerusalem. Her work documents daily life across the Middle East.

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Early life and education

Tanya Habjouqa was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1975. [1] [2] [3] Her mother was American, and her father was from the minority Circassian ethnic group in Jordan. [3] [4] When she was 4 years old, her parents divorced, and her mother brought Habjouqa and her brother to live in Fort Worth, Texas, where she grew up. [2] [5]

Habjouqa studied journalism and then anthropology at the University of North Texas. [3] [6] Early in her career, while still a student, she worked to photograph the lives of migrants in Texas. [1] She later earned a master's degree in global media and Middle East politics from SOAS University of London. [3]

Career

In 2002, Habjouqa moved back to the Middle East. [1] [5] She now is based in East Jerusalem, where she has raised her two children with her husband, a Palestinian lawyer who holds Israel i citizenship. [1] [2] [4] [7]

With her photography, Habjouqa works to document the daily struggles of those living under oppression across the Middle East. [1] [3]

She is a founding member of the all-female Rawiya photography collective and has joined the nonprofit NOOR photo agency. [1] [2] [3] Her journalistic photography has been published in such outlets as the Washington Post and NPR. [7] [8] She has also taught photography at Al-Quds Bard College in East Jerusalem. [3]

Habjouqa gained recognition for her 2009 "Women of Gaza" series. [1] [2] In 2015, she published the photography book Occupied Pleasures, based on her 2014 World Press Photo Award-winning project of the same name. [3] [9] It was named by Smithsonian as one of the year's best photo books. [3] [10]

In 2016, her work was featured in the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition "She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World." [1] In 2024, several of her pieces were included in the Middle East Institute's show "Louder Than Hearts." [7] [11] Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Institut du Monde Arabe, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, among other institutions. [3] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Haight, Emily (2016-05-26). "She Who Tells a Story: Tanya Habjouqa". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Estrin, James (2014-01-07). "Palestinian Pleasures". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Tanya Habjouqa". Aria Art Gallery. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  4. 1 2 Wilson, Keith (June 2021). "The N-Photo Interview: Tanya Habjouqa" (PDF). N-Photo. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  5. 1 2 McKeever, Amy (2023-07-18). "How has Texas changed in 20 years? She went home to find out". National Geographic. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  6. 1 2 Nettles, Adrienne (2014-12-11). "Telling stories to effect change". North Texan. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  7. 1 2 3 Larson, Vanessa H. (2024-05-29). "A stirring photography show captures the Middle East through a female lens". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  8. ↑ "Left behind, in an assaulted Israeli town". NPR. 2023-10-13. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  9. ↑ Collins, Courtney; Holter, Rick; Martinez, Krystina (2014-08-15). "Tanya Habjouqa On Looking At The World Through A Different Lens". KERA News. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  10. ↑ Magazine, Smithsonian; Roberts, Molly. "The Best Photography Books of the Year". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  11. ↑ Binswanger, Julia (2024-05-31). "This Woman-Led Photography Exhibition Showcases the Diversity of Middle Eastern Femininity". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
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