If They Move Me ... I Die
Photographer: Mohamed Hozyen
Exhibit Title: If They Move Me ... I Die
Location: Egypt
“If They Move Me… I Die” is a personal narrative that traces the final days of my grandmother in her lifelong neighborhood, the Maspero Triangle downtown by the river nile of Cairo Egypt an area now undergoing forced transformation through gentrification.
Having been raised in this very neighborhood, I tell the story through my grandmother’s eyes, a lens shaped by memory, resilience, and quiet resistance. Her experience becomes a vessel through which I explore the broader displacement of communities affected by rapid urban development. This work reflects on how these changes fracture our sense of belonging, distort memory, and erode inherited identity.
While parts of Cairo rise ever higher, casting shadows of progress, that same progress imposes the erasure of deeply rooted neighborhoods. This project is both a tribute and a protest, a reflection on what we lose when the city forgets its people.
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