Cairo is not just a city you visit; it is a city you experience. Walking through its streets, I felt surrounded by stories at every corner. With my Fujifilm X100VI, I found myself stopping often, observing daily life, and capturing moments as they naturally unfolded. Street photography in Egypt feels special because of the people. There is warmth, openness, and authenticity in the way life happens. Small interactions, expressions, and everyday scenes turn into meaningful photographs without...

I began 2026 with intentions that looked very different from how the year actually started. And perhaps that, in itself, was the first lesson. Right after Christmas and just before the new year, I had a ski accident that resulted in a complete tear in my left knee. It did not only bring physical pain or limit my mobility. It forced an unexpected pause. In that brief moment on a steep slope, when I slipped, fell, and heard a sound I will never forget, life slowed down instantly. Everything...

I was born in 1980—a time the world calls modern history, but for those of us who lived it, it was anything but ordinary. My generation grew up between wars, regimes, and revolutions. We were raised by headlines and air raids, by resilience and uncertainty. As a child in Kuwait during the Iran-Iraq war, I still remember the distant, thunder-like sound of bombs. Kuwait may not have been the battlefield, but we were certainly in the blast radius—emotionally and psychologically. That fear of the...