On the occasion of the exhibition Shifting Sands, the project which won the last edition of the Nur call for entries, forming part of the PhotoEspaña 2023 Festival, Casa Árabe has organized this meeting with photographers Wafaa Samir and Rehab Eldalil, along with the curator David Drake.

Shifting Sands presents five interrelated projects by award-winning young photographers from North Africa and the Middle East, each with a powerful creative vision that poetically addresses similar issues in their respective territories and environments for different reasons and purposes.

In her project, Longing of the Stranger Who Has Lost His Way, Rehab Eldalil rekindles with his roots and explores the process of finding a sense of belonging in the Bedouin community of Saint Catherine in South Sinai, Egypt. The community occupies a central place in the creative process. The artist uses her commentary on embroidery, poetry, sound and storytelling to relate her photographic work with issues of social injustice and the community’s history of struggles to protect its land from danger, and how that land has provided the community with blessings in return for work.

Conferencia PHE- Wafaa SamirAs for What Remains, by Wafaa Samir, it discusses the sustainable city of New Gourna, built by sustainable architecture pioneer Hassan Fathy. The village designed by Fathy was built in 1946 to house the inhabitants of the town of Gourna, in the city of Luxor, who were evacuated to reduce the damage caused to the Ancient Egyptian tomb discovered under the town. The exhibition’s

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