Heba Khalifa

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Heba Khalifa (b.1977, Cairo) is a multimedia artist, photojournalist and painter. After graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 2000 with a Diploma in decorative cinema and theatre design, she studied at the High Institute of Art Critics. Khalifa uses photography as an essential part of her artistic projects, documenting and representing women and gender issues. She has worked for the prominent Arabic newspaper Al-Shorouk since 2008 and together with her photojournalistic work she dedicates her time to longer-term projects that explore more conceptual issues about women. In 2021 Khalifa also joined the Arab Documentary Photography Project (a partnership between AFAC, the Magnum Foundation, and the Prince Claus Fund) as a teacher’s assistant.

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