Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer whose work focuses on women, literacy and education reform in the Arab world. For her ongoing series "I Read, I Write," she photographed girls and women changing their lives with education in Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, Jordan and Tunisia. Boushnak is a TED Fellow and the co-founder of the RAWIYA collective, a photography cooperative of female photographers from the Middle East.
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