About TANYA HABJOUQA : PHOTOJOURNALIST
Tanya Habjouqa was born in Amman and educated in the United States, receiving her masters in Global Media and Middle Eastern Politics from the University of London SOAS. She has spent the last seven years documenting for media and NGOs inside Iraq, Darfur, Lebanon, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.
Currently based between Amman and Beirut, she is working on personal projects exploring socio-political dynamics and subcultures of the Levant. She is a versatile writer, photographer, video producer, and researcher.
Habjouqa received the 2007 Clarion Award for Press Photography for her coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah war for Bloomberg and the 2006 Global Health Council award for humanitarian photography with her Darfur coverage.. She is published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Focus, Jerusalem Report, Beirut Daily Star, Business Week, NOX, Conde Naste, and the academic journal: Cultures of Resistance.
Habjouqa is represented by Shoot the Earth: www.shoottheearth.com
Currently based between Amman and Beirut, she is working on personal projects exploring socio-political dynamics and subcultures of the Levant. She is a versatile writer, photographer, video producer, and researcher.
Habjouqa received the 2007 Clarion Award for Press Photography for her coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah war for Bloomberg and the 2006 Global Health Council award for humanitarian photography with her Darfur coverage.. She is published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Focus, Jerusalem Report, Beirut Daily Star, Business Week, NOX, Conde Naste, and the academic journal: Cultures of Resistance.
Habjouqa is represented by Shoot the Earth: www.shoottheearth.com