About me: CV/Resume

Awards:

Duke University: Center for Documentary Studies: 25 UNDER 25: Up and Coming American Photographer Award. 2008

Arab Media & Society Award for Best Photographer of the Year: 2007

International Color Awards Masters Cup: Nominee, 2007.

2007 Photo District News Annual: 2 entries. 2007.

NLGJA Excellence in Photojournalism Awards. 2006: 2nd Place.

Exhibitions:

“Sounds of Freedom” Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA. 2008

“En Foco” Artmosphera, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2008.

“Transitions” Tisch Gulf+Western Gallery, New York, NY. 2008

“Case of Conscience”, commissioned works for Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY. 2008.

“Diversity of Devotions” Brooklyn Public Library. New York 2008

“In” Contemporary Image Collective. Cairo Egypt.2007

"Tourism Captured." Thessaloniki: Photo Bienalle Greece 2007.

”Shift” International Center of Photography, 2006

”Unreal 2005”. White Couch, (traveling exhibit ) 2005.

”Stoned-Mask Series” . Xanadu, Soho, NYC 2004.

“Of Minor Consequence” Chelsea Market, Chelsea, NYC 2004.

“The Wild Bunch”. White Box Annex. Chelsea, NYC, 2003.

“Imperial Show”. Gobus Space. Soho.. NYC. 2002.

“Reactions”. Exit Art. Washington DC, 2001.

“Mask Show”. Art Directors Club. NYC,2001.

Books:

Taqwacore: American Muslim Punks – PowerHouse- 2009

25 UNDER 25: Up and Coming American Photographers -PowerHouse-2008

American Photography 23-JL Publishing Books -2007

SHIFT- ICP Press –2006

Teaching:

New York University, The Eye of the Photographer. Undergrad Seminar. Fall, 2009.