Laura Boushnak

For her ongoing documentary project "I Read I Write" she photographed girls and women changing their lives with education in Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, Jordan and Tunisia.

[1][2][3] After completing a BA in sociology at the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1997, Boushnak began her photography career covering news for the Associated Press agency in Lebanon.

When the war was over, Boushnak started the project "Survivor"[9] a story of Mohammed, who was trying to embrace his new life after losing both legs in a cluster bomb incident.

Since 2008 Boushnak has been working as an independent photographer, devoting more time to her long-term projects, one of which is a broad, ongoing one, titled "I Read I Write".

[10] The project shows successful and independent women from the Arab region who changed their lives through education while exposing and questioning the barriers they face.