She who tells a story : women photographers from Iran and the Arab world /

"She Who Tells a Story introduces the pioneering work of twelve leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gresh, Kristen (Author)
Corporate Author:	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Other Authors:	Krifa, Michket (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, Massachusetts : MFA publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2013]
Subjects:	Photography > Iran > Exhibitions. Photography > Arab countries > Exhibitions. Women photographers > Iran > Exhibitions. Women photographers > Arab countries > Exhibitions. Essaydi, Lalla. Almutawakel, Boushra, > 1969- Matar, Rania. Neshat, Shirin, > 1957- Tavakolian, Newsha. Ghadirian, Shadi. Dashti, Gohar, > 1980- El Nemr, Rana. Habjouqa, Tanya. Ḥalawānī, Rula. Hammam, Nermine, > 1967- Al-Ani, Jananne. Femmes photographes > Iran > Expositions. Femmes photographes > États arabes > Expositions. Photography > Exhibitions. > Iran. Photography > Exhibitions. > Arab countries. Matar, Rania Ḥalawānī, Rula Ghadirian, Shadi Essaydi, Lalla Al-Ani, Jananne Photography > Exhibitions Women photographers Arab countries Iran Fotografin Porträtfotografie Dokumentarfotografie Arabische Staaten Women photographers > Iran > Exhibitions Women photographers > Arab countries > Exhibitions Photography > Iran > Exhibitions Photography > Arab countries > Exhibitions Exhibition catalogues. exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition.

Table of Contents:

Director's foreword / Malcolm Rogers
Foreword: Women of images / Michket Krifa
Stories we thought we knew / Kristen Gresh
Constructing identities : Lalla Essaydi ; Boushra Almutawakel ; Rania Matar ; Shirin Neshat ; Newsha Tavakolian
New documentary : Shadi Ghadirian ; Gohar Dashti ; Rana El Nemr ; Tanya Habjouqa ; Rula Halawani ; Nermine Hammam ; Jananne Al-Ani.