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Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #13Please Donate Alex to be in Yemen
Post CommentDear friends, last March I met this 22 years old amazing American photographer her name is Alex who come by herself all the way from America to Yemen to cover the Yemeni revolution, I never met a brave young female photographer like her, she moved all times by herself from one governorate to another in Yemen no matter how situation was not safe and dangerous but she is so brave and amazing and I loved what she has done in Yemen, and now she is launching a kickstarter campaign to return to Yemen and photograph the transition period. Please spread the word for Alex to be here in Yemen again and enjoyed her photos in kickstarter. Love and Light A
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexpotter/yemen-a-fine-balance
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on May 11
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #12Donate Please ^_^
Post CommentLovely friends, the amazing kind heart family who hosted me in my one year study in America, Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi are running a project in Kickstarter from May 8 to June 19, the project called Bring it to the Table aims to bridge the political divide by allowing everyday citizens to share their beliefs, online and on camera.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/246621527/bring-it-to-the-table-0?ref=live
Please donate and share the word. Good luck dear family Julie and Ed.
Love and Light,
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Amira
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on April 28
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #11Sarah's project is Acacias for all, a social business to fight desertification and poverty in Tunisia
Post CommentHello wonderful people, wish you all full of light ^_^
My friend Sarah is doing a project called Acacias for all, a social business to fight desertification and poverty in Tunisia
Her team started planting 500 trees with their own money, she needs your help, to finance it, she needs 5000€ (she already get 2000€ from her NGO) and she made a crowd-fundind project on Fundedbyme http://www.fundedbyme.com/projects/2012/04/acacias-for-all/
Sarah
Please spread the world ^_^
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on August 19, 2011
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #10Photojournalist Amira Al-Sharif’s Journal 2010-2011 in the Land of dreams
Dearest Kickstarter people,
Here is an article I wrote about my life in the USA and my school ICP. I mentioned you in my article, just communicating with all of you changed alot inside me and made me see world in another perspective, I never expected my project will success in kickstarter, but it did and I finished my one year program at ICP and I get my diploma in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism and that was because you are amazing people.
http://www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10021292.html
I hope you like it
Light,
Amira
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on July 23, 2011
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #9A documentary about Muslim exchange Students
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Dear Kickstarter People,Here is an amazing project that I wish I could be part of, the project will help reduce social distance between Christians and Muslims.
The project is a micro-documentary that reveals a heart-touching friendship between Molly (American) and Anum (Pakistan) as well as the positive and sometimes challenging experiences from four other Muslim exchange students in America (from Palestine, Sierra Leone, & Pakistan).
Would you spare a moment to visit the project's kickstarter website and share the link amongst your friends and contacts via social media and possibly email lists?
Thank you to all amazing people in this world.
Light to All your Hearts,
Amira
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on July 18, 2011
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #8Promised Prints
Dears my Kickstarter People,
I had sent all your prints before I traveled to Sana’a the capital of Yemen in July 12, please inform you receive your prints. Thank you for all your emails I do appreciate it, I am sorry to all those I didn’t reply to their emails as there is no electricity and the internet for few minutes and it is so slow, but I promise I will try to reply to all your emails as much as I get chance to do so. Enjoy your prints and thank you for making my life colorful in America.
Sending you greetings from Sana’a the capital of Yemen
Light to All your hearts,
Amira
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Kathryn Compton on July 18, 2011
Dear Amira,
Thank you, I did receive the print this weekend. It is beautiful and I will have it framed soon and will give it a place of honor in my home. I wish you much success in your career and I'm very proud to have played even a very small part in your beginnings. Peace, KC -
Dick Walker on July 19, 2011
Amira, the photo is beautiful. Thank you for the lovely note that accompanied it. I look forward to hearing of your success in future.
Dick Walker
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John Arnold on July 26, 2011
Thank you Amira. My print arrived last week and I love it. I was especially delighted to receive your note as well. I'm going to frame the print up and hang it somewhere with the note in the frame behind the print. A little time-capsule to the future.
I wish you every success with your photographic career and a long happy life.
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on June 22, 2011
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #7Special "Shokran" Thank you
Dear Kickstarter People,
As promised before to thank all of you in my own website. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please go to my website and check out PRESS section tab. The Thank you is there with all your names.
www.amiraalsharif.com
Light,
Amira
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on June 17, 2011
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #6Multimedia Piece "Unveiling Misconception"
Dear Kickstarter People,
Hope my update find all of you in good health, I finished my Multimedia piece “Unveiling Misconception”, and will be uploaded to my website during a week, it is about my experience with the American women I met during this year as well as my experience in a foreign landscape I had come to explore, hope you like it and hope to get your feedback.
I still expect more addresses. Your prints will be send as soon as possible. As I mentioned before this month might be the most hardest part in school as it is the time to present our work in our one year program which needs a lot of editing, printing, post production and all that for preparing for our Career Day in June 29, the day where we are going to meet different editors from different newspapers and magazines to present our work and get their feedback, I am so excited to show them what I did during my year in America.
Thank you for all the wonderful emails I received, they made my day. Wish you a day full of light.
Light,
Amira
917 664 33 44
www.amiraalsharif.com
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Kathryn Compton on June 17, 2011
Hello Amira,
What email address should I use to send you my address and to let you know which print I would like? I tried hitting "reply," but of course that didn't work. I was a $100 donor and am hoping for the image of the woman taking off her scarf and the wind carrying it ...Thank you,
Kathryn Compton
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Sharon Cavanagh on July 6, 2011
Hello Amira,
Congratulations on your successful project. From one photographer to another, I'm very happy to support your project.
I'm really loving the picture of yours showing the girl under the pink scarf/material blowing towards the camera. We can only see one eye. I like that picture very much. Are there other pictures in that series that might become available?
Looking forward to seeing your project in an exhibition. I hope you are enjoying your time in New York.
Sharon
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on June 2, 2011
Amira Al Sharif
commented on a project updateHey Dear June, Happy to hear from you, my email address is msmn82@yahoo.com I am waiting... Light, Amira
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on June 1, 2011
Amira Al Sharif
Posted project update #5Faces of Yemen
Dear Kickstarter People,
Thank you so much for all those who reply, that’s “awesome” as you said here in America. Right now I am at ICP preparing for our final exhibition. I am trying my best to reply to all your emails in person, thank you for all these cute emails.
Thank you for selecting the photos from Yemen, this is an honor for me and for my beloved country. As many of you like the Yemeni photos, I wonder would you like to upload photos from Yemen. Please let me know, I will do that.
I started my year with all of you, having this wonderful experience and now we are together again.
Having your kind support gives me motivation to continue my project, feeling many spirits around me and thinking that there are people in other part believing in me.
I would love to fulfill my promises before I travel to Yemen. Hope to receive your selection and address as soon as possible.
Light,
Amira Al-Sharif
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Claudia on June 13, 2011
Amira, wonderful work on your website so far, thank you for sharing. Wishing you all the Best when you go back to your home in Yemen. And hope you keep finding a way to communicate your beautiful vision to the world.
Love and light
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Emily Marcroft on June 13, 2011
Amira-
You look like you're having an amazing time in the US and taking stunning pictures as well! Congratulations on all you've done so far, and I look forward to seeing even more of your work.
Emily
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Eva Vander Giessen on June 27, 2011
Amira, I am so impressed and inspired by your courage and your trail-blazing. You seen to catch both the boldness and the tenderness of women in your photography. Congrats on doing so well while you're in the midst of crush time at school. I looked through all the images in your new website - beautiful! Thank you again for making us a part of your project. I'm looking forward to more as you move on - you are in my good thoughts always.
Eva
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Amira Al Sharif
I was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in Yemen. As you may know these are very conservative societies. While some women are allowed to work, being female photojournalist is practically unheard of. I have had to fight all my life for my education and ... view more
Great article! Thanks for sharing it.