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^{I am a Dubai based designer, photographer, and art director working at the intersection of art, portraiture, and fashion.}

I was born and raised in Dubai but spent 10 years of my young adult life in Beirut trying to find myself in its culture and its people. I come from a mixed background, a Lebanese/Syrian Christian/Muslim household, and that, combined with the clash of my conservative upbringing and liberated twenties, has heavily affected the way I navigate through life. However, I never found the right medium to properly express myself up until a couple of months ago. After the Beirut explosion, I quit my job and bought a camera. Photography became the tool I use religiously. My mind was so saturated with the destroyed reality that I became a part of and I needed to escape. I had to channel the emotions that came from losing my home and the city that I loved. I started taking pictures of the mundane little things that tend to be overlooked because I now notice even more so how they really make up a part of a home. Now, however, this coping mechanism shifted into a passion and career, and I honestly don’t know how I lived so many years without it.