Over the past year, the region experienced a number of demonstrations spanning the Arab world. Entitled “All What I Want is Life,” the latest exhibition from Dubai’s Gulf Photo Plus (GPP) showcases a series of images from photographers capturing the protests sweeping Iraq, Sudan, Lebanon and Algeria.
Myriam Boulos
Time Magazine picked up the Lebanese photographer’s Instagram pictures of the Beirut protests to illustrate its digital coverage of the unrest.Amir Hazim
The Baghdad native has been documenting the ongoing protests, which erupted in 2019, via artful black-and-white portraits captured on his iPhone.Fethi Sahraoui
A self-taught documentary photographer from Algeria, Sahraoui, whose work has been featured in outlets like the New York Times, has been capturing the North African country’s protests since they began in 2019.Abdullah Dhiaa- Al-Deen
Hailing from Iraq, Al-Deen is a photo-journalist for Reuters who puts his life at risk each time he steps out to capture frames.Lana Haroun
The photographer rose to prominence after capturing the now-iconic image of a young woman, dressed in the traditional Sudanese attire, standing atop a car and leading revolutionary chants.Tamara Abdul Hadi
The Iraqi photojournalist who was born in the UAE and raised in Quebec, is now based in Lebanon where she has been documenting the ongoing demonstrations alongside her husband Roï Saade.
