The civilization of Nubia has existed for thousands of years. Its history can be traced back to the period of the ancient Egyptian civilization, a time of mutual influence between the two similar cultures. The Nubians always lived by the Nile, and the river has always provided them with life. The Nubian culture has suffered a lot due to consecutive reservoirs built during the last 100 years. During the construction of the High Dam in 1964, some 50,000 Egyptian Nubians had to leave a way of life based around the banks of the River Nile, immigrating to a desert life in settlements built for them near Kom Umbo, known as new Nubia. This is a story of the persevering Nubians living in Southern Egypt, their ancient traditions, their raw beauty, their fading art, and their ways of life that are slowly changing. Funded by VSCO Artist Initiative Grant.

Chandni Chowk is one of the oldest and busiest markets in Old Delhi, built in the 17th century by Mughal emperor of India Shah Jahan, and designed by his daughter, Jahan Ara.

Cutting across distances - in some cases exceeding 1,500km - tribal representatives from Siwa and Farafra in the Western Desert, from Northern and Southern Sinai and from Aswan converged onto Wadi El Gemal where members of the Al-Bashariya and Al-Ababda tribes, inhabitants of the Southern and Eastern deserts, eagerly awaited the encounter. Under the roof of one tent, for the first time in history, 120 tribesmen from across the country shared stories, music, poetry, food, arts, sciences and problems, as well as participated in a variety of entertaining games, sportive events and camel races.

The Nile river flows from South to North through eastern Africa, over 6,600 kilometers, making it one of the longest rivers in the world. The Nile river was critical to the development of ancient Egypt, and its always considered as the life line for the country. This series is to celebrate life by the river through its many colors. Moments by the Nile river between Aswan and Bani Suef, in Upper Egypt.

The vast land, known as Halayeb triangle, stretches from 50 kilometers north of Shalateen town all the way south to the Sudanese border. The area, which takes its name from the town of Halayeb, is created by the difference in the Egypt–Sudan border between the "political boundary" set in 1899. With the independence of Sudan in 1956, both Egypt and Sudan claimed sovereignty over the area. Since the mid-1990s, Egypt has exercised de facto effective administration of the area as part of the Red Sea Governorate, following the deployment of Egyptian military units there, and has been actively investing in it. The land is inhabited by the Bisharia bedouin, they call it Elba, after Gebel Elba (Mountain Elba in Arabic). Bisharia bedouins are nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Southern Egypt and north Sudan. They are a subgroup of the Beja people who are bilingual in Beja and Arabic. They call themselves "sons of the Jinns", they were constantly at war with the Romans. In the Middle Ages, they were known as Beja, and convoyed pilgrims from the Nile valley to Aidhab, the port of embarkation for Jeddah. They have acted as guides to caravans through the Nubian desert and up the Nile valley. What makes Elba unique for them is that, although it is well within the Saharan region, it has an unusually high rainfall. This is caused by a combination of prevailing the north east rain bearing winds, a bend in the coastline which causes the coast to align itself across the path of these wind currents, and the mountain range which forces the moist clouds upwards. This causes cooling, condensation and finally precipitation. The area's relatively high precipitation levels, combined with the cooler temperatures of the higher altitudes, sustain a surprising variety of wildlife. An astonishing 458 species of plant, forty species of birds, thirty species of reptiles, and twenty three species of mammal have been recorded in Halayeb triangle.

Shri Hanuman Akhara in Old Delhi; home to over 60 Kushti wrestlers. Kushti, is a 3,000-year-old martial art still practiced in some parts of India. Lord Hanuman, the monkey god of the Ramayana, symbolizes strength & fearlessness and it is to him that Kushti wrestlers pray for victory. The daily life of those wrestler starts at 6 am by push-ups and weightlifting. Then the wrestlers are paired by their trainers for practice bouts. The grueling daily training, strict diet and celibacy for the duration of their careers are necessary if they hope to ever achieve their dream - become a champion 'Pehlwani', which in these parts of India means - glory, respect, and power. The tradition is under threat as Indian sports councils constantly pressures Kushti schools to abandon ways of the past, embrace international wrestling standards, and win medals at Olympics.

Once called "white gold" by its farmers, Egypt’s extra-long staple cotton has been declining for the last 20 years at an alarming rate. Farmers were struggling due to the rising costs and cheap imports, many of them turned away from cotton in favor of more profitable cash crops that yields enough profit. In 2015, the government planned to cut Egyptian Cotton subsidies, forcing even more farmers to switch to other crops leaving the world's finest cotton on the brink of extinction. According to both official and independent statistics, the area of agricultural lands producing cotton in Egypt has decreased to a quarter (or less) of its size in the 1990s. An estimated 2 million feddans were being used for cotton cultivation until around 2001. In 2011, cotton-growing lands amounted to 310,000 feddans, or just over 3 percent of the nearly 9 million feddans of agricultural land. In the 1960s, more than 4 million, or nearly 67 percent, of 6 million total cultivated feddans were devoted to cotton. On assignment for KOTN, a Toronto-based clothing firm is supporting and subsidizing independent local farmers, manufacturing the cultivated extra-long staple cotton with one very simple goal, to create the perfect t-shirt.

It's a relatively new sport to Egypt. Parkour young practitioners started forming training groups and clubs in 2008. It’s a sport that originated from the concept of military obstacle training, and got developed to be an art and a lifestyle. Those young men practice everyday to hone their minds and bodies, trying to overcome their mental and emotional obstacles as well as the physical barriers they encounter.

Located in Delhi, Nizamuddin Dargah is the dargah (mausoleum) of one of the world's most famous Sufi saints, Nizamuddin Auliya. Women can pray standing outside the door to the tomb, or clinging to its walls, or sitting in the courtyard reading the Quran. Under no circumstances can they enter the chamber. The khadims, the dargah's caretakers, say, "According to Islamic law, women are not allowed near graves." For me, building a mausoleum that people visit is considered a Sufi tradition, and it has nothing to do with Islamic religion or laws. I have seen this Sufi tradition implemented differently in so many countries, including Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey. During the time of the prophets, people were buried in graveyards without any ceremonial mausoleums. This tradition came many years later. What I've seen in Nizamuddin could be considered discrimination. That's why the courtyard is usually full of women. Men usually visit quickly, entering the chamber, offering rose petals on the grave, and then either leave or pray inside the mosque. The discrimination seems even more ironic because just across the courtyard, a few yards away from Nizamuddin's grave, lies the tomb of a very interesting woman — Jahan Ara. The eldest child of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, Princess Jahan Ara composed poetry, commissioned mosques, laid out gardens, and wrote biographies. She designed Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi's signature street.

Children who were destined to experience pain and learned to fight for their lives too early, in some cases, before learning to speak. There is no statistics in Egypt for the number of children suffering from cancer, however, the Children's Cancer Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, known as 57357, receives up to 500 cases on daily basis, between 0 and 18 years old, some use the clinics, some for their one-day chemotherapy, and some who stay for long periods. In Children, each day counts, and due to lake of awareness and difficulty of diagnosis, many cases reach the hospital in a very late stage, some dies at the gate. What causes childhood cancer (mostly leukemia or brain tumor) is not very clear, it could be pollution, smoking parents, bad food, bad habits, or genetics. All those problems exists in Egypt as well as many developing countries in the middle-east and Africa. What matters is whether we are acknowledging the problem and focusing on solving it or not. Obviously the numbers of children with Cancer in Egypt is increasing, but how much, we need statistics, the Children's Cancer hospital in Cairo is a symbol of hope, its the largest hospital in the middle-east that treats children with cancer, and with the planned extension, it will be the largest in the world, on its first year in 2008, the percentage of cured patients was 10%, in 2014, they reached 70%, they treat all children for free, the hospital depends on donations from the people and institutes of Egypt, it treats any child from Africa or the middle-east for free, thats a step towards the solution but thats not enough. Saving a life of a child is more important than anything else in the world, and if hospitals, organisations, and governments focused on health issues and got the support from the people, many lives will be saved. This fight is more important than all the useless political fights, this is a fight that all people regardless of their differences can unite in, a fight for saving lives, a fight that really matters.

Egypt’s largest camel market is held at Birqash, a small village 35km northwest of Cairo. Until 1995 the market was held in Cairo’s western suburb of Imbaba. But when land became too precious for camels, one of Cairo’s age-old institutions was relocated to the edge of the Western Desert, just like all of Egypt’s animal markets. The camels have come a long way. The ride from the western deserts of the Sudan to the Egyptian border town of Shalateen takes between 25 to 35 days, depending on the weather, the health of the herd and the experience and mercy of the herdsman. Trucks then drive them here, to be sold for meat.

The Conservation Center of the Grand Egyptian Museum is built on an area of 7,000 m2 and considered the largest Conservation Center in the middle east. It consists of 12 Laboratories, five of which are main ones, the Stone Lab., the Wood Lab., the Organic Lab. (Textiles, Leather, and Papyrus), the Inorganic Lab. (Ceramics, Glass, and Metal), and the Human Remains Lab. Its built under the ground for maximum climate control. According to JICA, the Conservation Center roles are as follows: • Document, conserve and prepare GEM artifacts selected for display. • Be an international education, training, and research institute for conservation, museology, egyptology, archeology, and tangible cultural heritage. • Have staffs who are trained to the highest level in conservation and collection care. • Provide technical support for Egypt’s tangible cultural heritage especially for the project of the SCA, the Ministry of State of Antiquities. • Collaborate on projects with international centers and institutions those have similar objectives. • Provide services in tangible cultural heritage for Egyptian and international organizations. • Constantly explore innovative ways to communicate her projects and missions to Egyptian public and international community.

Plastic Recycling, Ezbet El Nakhl, 2009 Around 6000 garbage collectors are living in Ezbet El Nakhl, one of the slum areas of Cairo. The population came to live in this area as the land had a low price. Most people came from Upper Egypt in order to find work in Cairo, they make their living by collecting the garbage and sorting it for the purpose of recycling. All members of the family work together in that field.