In November 2001, Lisa Farjam was working in Paris as a secretary to the Iranian delegate to UNESCO. Within her network of colleagues, friends, and family, she came to know artists and writers from the Arab and Persian communities, such as the photographers Shirana Shahbazi and Youssef Nabil. "I was meeting so many people who were doing interesting work but were still represented under this monolithic umbrella of Arab artists," she recalls.
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