Crawling on Dust

Ali Zaraay  |  The Arab Documentary Photography Program  |  2024  |  Egypt
Crawling on Dust is a documentary project focused on how urban expansion in the Nile Delta has blocked the nomadic bedouin family of Haj Hani from moving about. By telling the story of Haj Hani’s family and his lineage, the project attempts to look at the Egyptian nomadic bedouin’s social and spatial memory, their alternative narratives of the “road” and “home,” their relationships to the land and animals, and their modes of resisting marginalization pedicated on imagining themselves in other realities.