around the world, he brought a piece of each country back home through my photography. From mosques, to kayaks, tall building and parks be it in Turkey, Dubai, or Italy– he did not want to lose a moment. More recently, through the careful use of composition, vision of light, and the eye for detail, he constantly attempt to generate extraordinary images out of ordinary objects. Using technical aspects of photography, he tries to evoke emotions for the viewer even from the simplest products or buildings. Hence, his last projects involved photographing some of the most famous hotels and apartments in the region, and those pictures are now used in Airbnb.com, Booking, and TripAdvisor among others. As an extension to his passion for photography, he is also engaged inIn Egypt, political cartoons leap off the page and into public places, from street art to high-class galleries, on leaflets and TV programs. At the Muslim Brotherhood’s sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya, in the Nasr City neighborhood of Cairo, where protesters spent more than a month protesting the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, cartoons were a form of resistance. A tent hosted an improvised gallery of comics from Brotherhood-affiliated newspapers; canvas walls at the back entrance displayed demeaning caricatures of the military and Photoshopped images of figures like the Coptic Christian Pope. (The Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff’s work—and SpongeBob—made an appearance, as well.) An art tent stood beside groups such as Lawyers for Morsi, Actors for Morsi, and Geologists for Morsi. That was Tuesday.

Wednesday morning, authorities began to clear