YASSER ALWAN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS
- Nov ’09 Paris-Photo - May ’09 Maddox Arts, London The Art of Survival, sponsored by the Helen Bamber Foundation - Dec ‘08 Eldon Gallery, School of Art, Design & Media, Portsmouth - Nov ’08 Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, curated by Catherine David - Nov ‘08 Foyles Gallery, London - Oct ‘08 Chats Palace Arts Centre, London - July ‘05 World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco - Dec ‘03 The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo - May ‘01 Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco - Jan ‘01 The Panopticon Gallery, University of Kent, Canterbury - Jan ’00 The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Cairo - Feb ‘96 Ewart Gallery, The American University in Cairo - Nov ‘95 Foyer des Großen Saals, Burgerhaus, Frankfurt
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
- 2008 Arts Council of England - 2008 Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust - 2001 Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography - 1999 Royal Netherlands–Swiss Embassy Culture Grants -1991 Al-Sayyid Hassan Taher Scholarship, Georgetown University -1986 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
CATALOGUES & BOOKS
- 2008 The Liberty of Appearing, published by Peacock Imprint, UK - 2008 ‘Studio Bakr’ in Cinema Cairo: The Golden Years of Egypt Film, published by The American University in Cairo Press - 2007 Imagining Egypt: The Photographs of Lehnert & Landrock, published by Lehnert & Landrock Orient Art Publishers
LECTURES/ARTICLES
* “No Ideas but in Things”: A Documentary Art Short on Message presented at the American University in Cairo, April 2010 * lectures on photography at Cairo University and the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Oct-Nov 2009 * The Blinding of Egypt: Long-Term Censorship and the Understanding of Photographs, Hypatia (September 2009) * Several lectures/slide presentations for The Liberty of Appearing Photo Forum #7, SOAS, King’s College, University of Portsmouth * Maxime Du Camp in Egypt, Fullbright Commission in Egypt, Sep 2007 * Re-Mapping the Arab World: Photography and Orientalism, presented at the University of Exeter, April 2001 * Documentary Photography in Egypt, Berry College, Georgia and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 2000 * Sarah Lawrence College, New York, April 2000 * Photography and the Invention of Reality, The American University in Cairo, February1996 * Women and Photography in Egypt, presented at the Women and Memory Study Group in Cairo, Sep 1996
EDUCATION
-1992 Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Wash, M.A. Arab Studies -1986 Colby College, B.A. French Literature -1984–85 Université de Caen, France -1983–84 Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design
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