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5 Fast Facts: Female Figures
Posted: July 9, 2026
Category: Rania Matar
Impress your friends with five fast facts about NMWA collection artists who celebrate the power, beauty, and complexity of the female body.
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.

Recent Acquisitions: Rania Matar
Posted: August 18, 2021
Category: Rania Matar
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.

Opening This Week: Live Dangerously
Posted: September 18, 2019
Category: Rania Matar
Live Dangerously reveals the bold and dynamic ways in which female bodies inhabit and activate the natural world. Twelve groundbreaking photographers use humor, drama, ambiguity, and innovative storytelling to illuminate...

She Who Tells a Story: Rania Matar
Posted: June 15, 2016
Category: Rania Matar
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.

Deconstructing Orientalism in “She Who Tells a Story”
Posted: May 29, 2016
Category: Rania Matar
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".