© Alice Clisson, 2025

Education

The American University in Cairo
B.A. in Anthropology with a Minor in Film (2020 – 2024)

Sciences Po, Paris
5-month exchange program with a focus on Humanities and Social Sciences (2023)

The Arab Council for Social Sciences
New Generation of Social Scientists Fellowship (2022–2024)

Cairo University
Faculty of Engineering (2019 – 2020)

Residencies

Résidences Méditerranée avec l’Institut Français (Aug-Nov 2025)
Three months at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille, France, to develop the long-term project ‘Dépouiller’

Confrences

World Congress on Undergraduate Research, Warwick University, UK (2023).

SEA Inaugural Student Conference, the American University in Cairo, Egypt (2022).

Exhibitions

Retour de Résidence, Institute français d’Égypte (Jan–Feb 2026) — Curator.

Keep Me Posted, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (May–July 2025) — Group Show.

SARD, Cairo Photo Week, Cairo, Egypt (May 2025) — Co-Curator.

Through the Smog, AUC Tahrir, Cairo, Egypt (Sep–Oct 2024) — Curator.

What to Do When You Cannot Hold a Mountain Between Your Arms?, ARD Art
Institution, Cairo, Egypt (Apr–May 2024) — Solo Show.

Ways of Living, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (Feb–Mar 2022) — Group Show.

Dabaphoto 6, Le18, Marrakech, Morocco (Mar–Jun 2021) — Group Show.

Cairo Photo Week, Cairo, Egypt (Mar 2021) — Group Show.

PHmuseum: INSIDE, Bologna, Italy (Apr 2021) — Group Show.

Awards

Altorki Award for Ethnographic Research, AUC (2022)
For Between the Sand and the Sea: The Self-Making of Young Male Bedouins of Awlad ‘Ali.

Press

Lufthansa (Dec 2025)
Picture Perfect Cairo.

En résidence Expérience, Friche la Belle de Mai (Nov 2025)
Conversation with Sophie Bourlet.

Financial Times, HTSI (Dec 2025)
Architectural tour of Cairo with Salem Charabi.

Booooooom Photo Awards Publication 2023 (Jun 2024)
Featured in the annual Booooooom Photo Awards.

ArchDaily (Jan 2024)
Documented the Jameel Centre building in Downtown Cairo.

Granta Magazine (Jul 2023)
Photography for "Cairo Song".

Atmos Earth (Feb 2023)
Photographed Fikry El Kashif, Nubian folk singer.

DataLand (Periodical) (2021)
Editorial Photographer