George Awde is a visual artist currently based in Doha , Qatar . Awde ’s photographs explore contemporary masculinity , ideas of state , the formation of kinship , and the self , through photographs of young men in the Middle East . Awde was born in 1980 in Boston , Massachusetts and raised by Lebanese immigrants . He received his BFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2004 and his MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2009 . The events of the September 11 attacks and the aftermath of anti-Middle Eastern sentiment in the United States pushed Awde to explore his Lebanese and Arab roots in his practice
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
George Awde