Selected CV
(For a comprehensive, most recent CV, email habjouqa@gmail.com)
Awards & Honors
2026 Selected for Great Women Photographers, Phaidon, a global survey of more than 250 pioneering women photographers spanning nearly 200 years of photography
2025 National Press Photographers Association, Best of Photojournalism, Second Place, Portrait/Personality
2024 TIME Top 100 Photos of the Year
2022 National Geographic, 2021: The Year in Pictures
2020 Hundred Heroines, selected among 50 new Heroines recognizing outstanding women in photography
2015 TIME and Smithsonian, Best Photobooks of the Year, Occupied Pleasures
2014 World Press Photo, Second Prize, Daily Life Stories, Occupied Pleasures
2014 TIME Top 100 Photos of the Year
Exhibitions
2026 Shadow Nor Sun (solo), Fotofestiwal, Łódź, Poland
2025 Ephemeral Landscapes of the Sun, Casa Árabe and PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid and Córdoba
2024 Birds Unaccustomed to Gravity (solo), Fotografihuset, Oslo
2023 What Palestine Brings to the World, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
2022 We Are All Children of Nine Months (solo), BredaPhoto, Netherlands
2021 A Sacred Space Oddity (solo), Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai
2020 Contemporary Muslim Fashions, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
2019 Contemporary Muslim Fashions, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
2018 Contemporary Muslim Fashions, de Young Museum, San Francisco
2018 Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots (solo), Cortona On The Move, Italy
2017 Occupied Pleasures (solo), Estação Imagem, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2016 Where Are We Now, Paris Photo, East Wing
2015 Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe Contemporain, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
2015 Cherchez l'erreur, Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris
2015 She Who Tells a Story, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2014 Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York
2014 Arab Contemporary, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2013 She Who Tells a Story, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Grants & Fellowships
2026 Research Fellow, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2025 Grant Winner, The Aftermath Project, Birds Unaccustomed to Gravity
2016 International Women's Media Foundation, Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists
2016 Magnum Foundation, On Religion
2015 Prince Claus Fund, Culture in Defiance Grant
2013 Magnum Foundation, Emergency Fund, Occupied Pleasures
Juries & Mentorship
2014– Arab Documentary Photography Program: Founding Mentor (2014–24), Alumni Fellowship Mentor (2023), Program Advisor (2024–)
2026 Mentor, VID Foundation for Photography Grant
2024 Juror, Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Incipiens (winner Mohamed Mahdy)
2021 Juror, FotoEvidence W Award
2020– Advisory Board, FotoEvidence
2020 Founding Advisor, POY Asia, Pictures of the Year International
2019 Judge, Pictures of the Year International
2018 Juror, Prémio Estação Imagem (Portuguese photojournalism awards)
2017 Jury Member, World Press Photo Contest
2014–15 Selection Committee and Master, Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo
Talks
2026 “Where the Devil Is Not Looking: Documentary Practice as Cultivation of the Invisible,” SPE Midwest, Ohio State University
2026 Shadow Nor Sun, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2024 “War Reporting: The Case of Gaza and Israel,” Columbia Journalism School, moderated by David Remnick
2024 “Beyond the Frontline: Civilian Perspectives in Ukraine and Palestine,” Night of Photojournalism, PhotoSaintGermain, Paris
2024 “Repensar el mundo,” Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus, Menorca, with Najwan Darwish and Miquel Molina
2024 “Images from Gaza: The Politics of Representation,” Fotografihuset, Preus Museum and OsloMet, Oslo
2023 “Images of Crisis: Ethics and Responsibility in Humanitarian Communication,” ICRC
2022 “Agency and Authorship,” Houston Museum of African American Culture
2020 “Authorship & Ethics in Visual Stories,” Photo London, with Bénédicte Kurzen
2020 “A Sacred Space Oddity,” BredaPhoto, with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
2019 “Making the Invisible Visible,” World Press Photo, Amsterdam
2019 Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots, In Transit, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
2018 Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots, Cortona On The Move, Italy
2017 Internazionale a Ferrara, Italy
2016 “Women Picturing Revolution,” International Center of Photography, New York
2016 “She Who Tells a Story,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2015 “Occupied Pleasures,” Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University, New York
2015 “She Who Tells a Story,” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University