Myriam Boulos: What's Ours

Myriam Boulos (born in Beirut, 1992) emerged from a country fragmented by war that had to reinvent itself. At the age of sixteen, she started to use her camera to question Beirut, its people, and her own position in Lebanese society. She graduated with a master’s degree in photography from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. She has taken part in both national and international collective exhibitions, including Close Enough at ICP, NY; Infinite Identities at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; and Troisième Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe, Paris. She received the Purple Lens Award in 2014, which resulted in her first solo exhibition in 2015. Her second solo exhibition took place at the French Institute of Lebanon in 2019. Her work has been published in Aperture, FOAM, Vogue, Time, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. In 2020 Myriam co-founded and became the photo editor of Al Hayya, a bilingual magazine that publishes literary and visual content on the works, interests, and strife of women in her region. In 2021 she joined Magnum as a nominee. 

Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning writer on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015), and founder of the newsletter Feminist Giant.

Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning writer on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015), founder of the newsletter Feminist Giant, and a regular contributor to the New York Times.