NMWA Assistant Curator Orin Zahra examines photographer Rania Matar's "SHE" series, from which three photographs are now part of the museum's collection.
![A light-skinned young woman with long, dark brown hair in a black, long lace sleeved dress stands confidently in a crumbling loggia. She gazes at the viewer with a serious, captivating look.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Lea-Beirut_web-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
In Arabic, the word rawiya means “she who tells a story.” Each artist in NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World...
![In front of a stormy ocean, a woman with light skin and blonde, wind-blown hair stands with head turned in profile and eyes closed.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Rayven_web-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
NMWA’s summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World is organized around three themes: Deconstructing Orientalism, Constructing Identities, and New Documentary.
![A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/She-Who-Tells-a-Story-exhibition_28_1399-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)