It was the summer of 2017 and I had just graduated from my MA in Globalization. It had been 6 years since the Arab Revolutions, and 7 years since my last visit to Egypt. By then I had developed a hobby out of documentary photography and was yearning for a good adventure. I was torn between capturing the aesthetics of Córdoba, Spain or capturing chronicles of everyday life of the long unvisited homeland.

In anthropology, we learn to harness two fundamental tools of communication, the language of the people we are researching and the language of the heart. Given that the latter is a harder skill to cultivate,  knowing Arabic in an Egyptian dialect was my asset for communication in Egypt. And so homeland it was. I packed my very first DSLR and decided to roam Egypt for three months—the longest period of time I have ever spent there. I visited villages, slums, and three cities in an attempt to capture fragments of an Egypt post-revolution.