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10 Arab Photojournalists Win the Magnum Foundation Photography Grant

With a mission to foster emerging documentary photographers in the region, the Magnum Foundation (in collaboration with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and Prince Claus Fund) has named the 2016 Arab Documentary Photography Program grantees. Now in its third edition, the program supports photographers and visual artists who chronicle important social issues and narrate personal stories significant to the Arab world.

This year’s jury committee consisted of Lebanon’s Sursock Museum director Zeina Arida; photographer and president of the Magnum Foundation Susan Meiselas; and Kuwaiti artist and professor of visual art at the New York University Abu Dhabi, Tarek Al-Ghoussein. The three jury members selected ten photographers to attend two intensive workshops in Beirut, Lebanon. In addition to receiving a production grant, the group will benefit from a six-month mentorship program designed to support the artists’ personal projects.

This year’s line up of grantees includes Egyptian photographers Mostafa Bassim, Hadeer Ahmed, and Sara Sallam as well as Lebanese photographers Roy Saade and Carmen Yachouchi. They are joined by Youcef Krache from Algeria; Iman Al-Dabbagh from Saudi Arabia; Mehdi Mariouch from Morocco; Nadia Bseiso from Jordan; and Muhammad Salah from Sudan.

The selected photographers’ grant applications touched on an array of diverse topics. Al-Dabbagh narrated the stories of those who continue to pursue their passions despite social restrictions in her homeland. Meanwhile, Salah highlighted the struggles of Sudanese women and their experiences with skin bleaching.

Browse the 2016 Magnum Foundation photography grant portfolios in the gallery above.

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