Marwa is documentary photographer based in Cairo. Born in 1989 and has chosen the photography career over pharmacy which was her major going for what she loves. Since 2008, Marwa has participated in more than 25 local group exhibitions and 5 international ones. She’s also a winner of a number of local awards as EU commission’s delegation to Egypt’s competition in 2008, El-Sawy Culture wheel photography award in 2009 and two regional awards: UNICEF MENA photographer of the year 2011 and INDIAFRICA award for the North African sector in 2012.

 

Marwa has worked for some local magazines as Horus (The inflight magazine of Egypt-Air), Community times, Egypt today and Business today. She’s currently an intern in The Daily News Egypt, an independent Egyptian newspaper that comes out in English language. She also works on her own documentary projects as “100 wesh w wesh” (100 faces and a face), the one she’s currently doing about Egyptian people and the diversity in their day to day life and other photo stories and projects. She believes documentary arts write the history and if they don’t exist no one would ever know how life was like and how people lived during the days before.