For ten years, Isabelle Eshraghi has been working, as a photojournalist, on visual investigations on the situation of women in different Muslim countries: Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Niger.
Along the years, she witnessed several changes in those societies, avant-gardist or conservative, and the women fights, their laughter, their hopes, and their despairs. The Westerner vision often reduces their life to the veil, arranged wedding, violence, and terrorism. The urge of the news doesn't give us time to understand the reality of Muslim societies. Because of prejudices and common pictures of Islamic countries, we make women all tarred with the same mediatic brush.
Beyond countries’ borders, Laure Adler’s text and the 150 pictures of Isabelle Eshraghi invite us to discover those women within Islam, in their diversity and their likeness.