Documenting the Beauty in a City's Decay: Lost in Tunis (UrbEx Photography). A Presentation by Mourad Ben Cheikh Ahmed

Date: 

Friday, January 10, 2020, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Tunisia Office Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University, Les jardins du Lac II, Tunis

Lost In Tunis- January 2020

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University is pleased to invite you to :

LOST IN TUNIS, Documenting the Beauty of the City's Decay

A presentation by: MOURAD BEN CHEIKH AHMED

Urban Explorer, Photographer

Mourad Ben Cheikh Ahmed holds a degree in International Trade and worked in the Tunis Stock Exchange sector. Mourad is currently working in a FOREX Trading Room in Tunis. He is passionate about URBEX [Urban Exploration] and photography and has launched the Lost in Tunis photographic project 3 years ago, in 2016. He blogs and posts peculiar photographs of abandoned places in the city on: lostintunis.comHis project consists in taking photographs of urban ruins; it is today contributing to document monuments that are falling into decrepitude, threatened with demolition, and facing urban gentrification. It is now contributing to raise awareness about heritage preservation in the country.

 

I Friday, January 10, 2020 || 5:30 to 7:30 pm I

ADMISSION FREE