https://mahmoudkhatab.com Mahmoud Khattab Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:34 +0000 https://mahmoudkhatab.com en https://mahmoudkhatab.com/Welcome-2 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:21:40 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/Welcome-2 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/About Tue, 23 May 2023 17:09:12 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/About MahmoudKhattab <img width="3539" height="4954" width_o="3539" height_o="4954" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6833bbba74ab831b485b4f18865c203649f0b58f3b945e68ebcaefb0d8a480ae/L1009397.jpeg" data-mid="238244934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6833bbba74ab831b485b4f18865c203649f0b58f3b945e68ebcaefb0d8a480ae/L1009397.jpeg" /> Mahmoud Khattab is an independent photographer and writer based between Cairo, Paris and Bern. Mahmoud’s work spans years of observing change and reminiscence of hills and himself in stills and writings. In his first self-published book, Mahmoud narrates a year as a soldier: venturing into the desert with a dog and an individuality stripped. Finding salvation in the poetry and visual; an autoethnography. The Dog Sat Where We Parted is the winner of Kraszna-Krausz 2025 Photography Book Award and was shortlisted for Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award.In pursuit of tracings, Mahmoud has focused on working on and with valleys, both alive and disappearing. There Was a Valley Here Once traces the disappearing valleys in Cairo’s eastern deserts: a story of chasing a nation’s dream of building new cities in Egypt and how it changed the topographies and nearby ecosystems. It received recognition of Projects Award by Qatar Museums and will debut at the 15th Bamako Biennale in November, 2026. Mahmoud narrates a Cairo’s past we haven’t seen through stories of love that transcended centuries. In A Poet Never Born, a story that intimately narrates two characters who lived 600 years apart, he writes poetry to imagine sceneries of Omar Ibnul Farid and Jamila Fazail meeting over, and over. His works have been shown in festivals as Rencontres de la Photographe Arles and in Countries such as Finland, Ethiopia, China and others. He is a fellow of Magnum Foundation and a member of Everyday Africa and Everyday Middle East. Mahmoud studied medicine at Ain Shams University in Cairo and is currently pursuing masters studies of contemporary art practice at the Academy of the Arts in Bern.Contact: mahmoudm.khattab (at) gmail (dot) com Artist Statement I believe in photography as a warm, personal medium to serve a purpose; a story, a visual archive of our lifetime.My self taught practice lets me explore my stories in freedom with a patient discipline. My love for Arabic poetry, especially of Andalusi poets the likes of Lisan Al din Ibnul Khatib, Al Mutamid ibnu Abbad’s tribute to his lover Itemad and others, made me love writing stories and, over the years,&nbsp; strive to make my writings have equal footing with my visuals.Part of my personality that grows within my work is my passion for terrains and visuals of the earths I live by. Whether a desert I venture into as a soldier, a hill that resilient communities take sanctuary in, or a valley I had known so well that disappeared, I mean to portray them as an anchor to the story I tell like foothills of a mountain that’s there to last epochs. © 2026 Mahmoud Khattab. All rights reserved. https://mahmoudkhatab.com/Books Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:36:11 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/Books MahmoudKhattab &nbsp; <img width="1685" height="2445" width_o="1685" height_o="2445" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44cf95a5c6c5fdb91cffad248dd104b9d4d37524b6b9467ff721dc4e38f8609e/img20251109_05151594.jpg" data-mid="240422649" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44cf95a5c6c5fdb91cffad248dd104b9d4d37524b6b9467ff721dc4e38f8609e/img20251109_05151594.jpg" /> <img width="3742" height="2500" width_o="3742" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f10eadc619ed27db79f11bbcc26cdf4c63fdba424d5f4afbad0b6de02719d623/img20250925_20565361.jpeg" data-mid="238771672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f10eadc619ed27db79f11bbcc26cdf4c63fdba424d5f4afbad0b6de02719d623/img20250925_20565361.jpeg" /> <img width="3389" height="2397" width_o="3389" height_o="2397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e6caa3e0b1a877a3443da0bf1b787f9fae397278b0d1f86fd736f5c07898e9e/img20251103_14231970.jpg" data-mid="240422647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e6caa3e0b1a877a3443da0bf1b787f9fae397278b0d1f86fd736f5c07898e9e/img20251103_14231970.jpg" /> <img width="3510" height="2550" width_o="3510" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cc76d1139d98488b1831cf62409f11ecb065c2e7e9132137c1b7e071694a168/imgIG0029.jpg" data-mid="229135761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cc76d1139d98488b1831cf62409f11ecb065c2e7e9132137c1b7e071694a168/imgIG0029.jpg" /> <img width="3510" height="2550" width_o="3510" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/385f4119470a5a9cabc75c160b93fef07c3b581c6e1d5f684c5add8e186706a3/imgIG0035.jpg" data-mid="229135764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/385f4119470a5a9cabc75c160b93fef07c3b581c6e1d5f684c5add8e186706a3/imgIG0035.jpg" /> <img width="3510" height="2550" width_o="3510" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/563ead6522ed2d5bb44e7c250ee15e249deb932c47ac662b80317988f7150db4/imgIG0030.jpg" data-mid="229135762" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/563ead6522ed2d5bb44e7c250ee15e249deb932c47ac662b80317988f7150db4/imgIG0030.jpg" /> <img width="3377" height="2335" width_o="3377" height_o="2335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a430d56be2844e7fcacea2c313e850d66fc9b962eec1ef3b72c59eda0d44967/img20251103_14293546.jpg" data-mid="240422645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a430d56be2844e7fcacea2c313e850d66fc9b962eec1ef3b72c59eda0d44967/img20251103_14293546.jpg" /> <img width="3347" height="2386" width_o="3347" height_o="2386" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d3f9581c1b36733e5e7b25c1587da54b0537289b4c2fb813939e594858befd5/img20251103_14245319.jpg" data-mid="240422646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d3f9581c1b36733e5e7b25c1587da54b0537289b4c2fb813939e594858befd5/img20251103_14245319.jpg" /> The Dog Sat Where We Parted Self-published, 2024 Order your copy here: A laureate of Polycopies &amp; Co. and Shortlisted in Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award, The Dog Sat Where We Parted is a photography book: a visual narrative of my time in conscription as I ventured into the desert as a soldier with a dog, a head shaved and a camouflage that appealed to sand. Questioning times of following orders and sharing a plate and a story with strangers who dressed and shaved their heads just like me. Through photographs discretely taken together with journal writings, I echoed my solitude as I pay my debt to a country with servitude of my body and time.First edition: 700Photographs, text, illustration and graphic design © Mahmoud Khattab 2024ISBN: 978-3-033-10910-0 Printing: Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, Printing House - CairoHard cover, A5, 112 pagesPaper: Cotton 120gTextile Cover: Linen sourced from local market with hard letter-press. Price: 60 Euro/CHF News: In its 40th edition, Mahmoud Khattab wins the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for The Dog Sat Where We Parted (Self-published). A deeply personal project, Khattab captures the vulnerability and fragility of otherwise unseen military life in Egypt. Shot during his year of Egyptian national service as an army doctor in 2017, it is named after Antar, a stray dog with whom Khattab formed a close bond over five-mile walks across the desert. The photographs are an expression of Khattab’s feelings of intense loneliness as a soldier. Awards Kraszna Krausz Photography Book Award 2025Laureate of Polycopies &amp; Co. 2023 ShortlistsParis Photo-Aperture First PhotoBook Award 2025 Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2024 Book Signings 2026 I Never Read Festival, a conversation with Marwa Ben Halim from Cairo Art Book Fair followed by signing 17th of June Basel, Switzerland2025 Galerie Triangle 8th of July Arles FR Paris Photo with Librairie Delpire &amp; Co. Booth J02 Grand Palais November 13th 12 PM Paris Polycopies &amp; Co. Festival with AKA Tawla November 15th 3 PM Paris V&amp;A South Kensington: Kraszna-Krausz 40th Photography Book Awards 19th of November London 2024November 6th: Polycopies &amp; Co. Festival ParisNovember 8th: Polycopies &amp; Co. Festival with Aka Tawla&nbsp; Bookstores Yvon Lambert Paris FR Le Bal Books Paris FR sold out Librairie Delpire &amp; Co. Paris FR Libraire La Comète FRLibrairie du Palais Arles FR Claire de Rouen London UK The Photographers’ Gallery London UKPhotoforum Pasquart Biel/Bienne Swizterland Kunsthalle Basel Switzerland Libraries Magnum Foundation USA School of Visual Arts New York,&nbsp;USA Mediothek, Hochschule der Künste Bern Bern CH Lil Watan Nairobi, KenyaPhotoforum Pasquart Library Biel/Bienne CH Museum of Fine Arts Library at Tufts University USA Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art USA Ingalls Library, The Cleveland Museum of Art USA University of Westminster Library UK Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University USA Syracuse University Library USA https://mahmoudkhatab.com/A-Curve-That-Warmly-Fits-Yours-Intro-copy Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:29 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/A-Curve-That-Warmly-Fits-Yours-Intro-copy A Curve That Warmly FitsYours https://mahmoudkhatab.com/A-Curve-That-Warmly-Fits-Yours-mid-copy Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:34 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/A-Curve-That-Warmly-Fits-Yours-mid-copy <img width="5952" height="3968" width_o="5952" height_o="3968" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6e5e527699477c2ca67cb9ea86e3ee15187a758589f1b4a63add94cf063ace4/L1003430-2.jpg" data-mid="224702372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6e5e527699477c2ca67cb9ea86e3ee15187a758589f1b4a63add94cf063ace4/L1003430-2.jpg" /> I have been tracing valleys since as long as I remember, both as a kid collecting stones from their banks, or searching for their remains after they perish. I wanted to see a living one and how they become long admired and feared like a mother. <img width="4359" height="2918" width_o="4359" height_o="2918" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bec9d3aac80f05b541bc493aa6d3a578c76a520b4bcb1cbe1393dd0a612f2650/scan0042-copy.jpg" data-mid="224702373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bec9d3aac80f05b541bc493aa6d3a578c76a520b4bcb1cbe1393dd0a612f2650/scan0042-copy.jpg" /> In my letter to you, I wrote of water caressing stones for epochs at a time to a curve your body would intimately fit in.I show you the ways this valley inspires the feminine and masculine inside of me.A Curve That Warmly Fits Yours is a tracing of Valle Verzasca in the southern Alps in portraits I took of myself and others in its landscapes. I have always been inspired by Bernini’s flesh of marble. For once, I wanted to explore this weight stones intimately on our bodies. Together with tracing the length of an old and revered valley, it felt like a conversation with yet another sculptor, whose words would echo south to a lake and surrounding mountains. <img width="3968" height="5564" width_o="3968" height_o="5564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14a5e5e1141a4ffbd0ac638232cdef48e2549bb200e2a258bd0d9160e63307b7/L1005026.jpg" data-mid="224702374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14a5e5e1141a4ffbd0ac638232cdef48e2549bb200e2a258bd0d9160e63307b7/L1005026.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="5315" width_o="3543" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29a923912d50c405787334e3075a4467a49e0979620c4ff64b65317259ebbf89/scan0225-30x45cm.jpg" data-mid="224702382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29a923912d50c405787334e3075a4467a49e0979620c4ff64b65317259ebbf89/scan0225-30x45cm.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb5dcb64720e9f29c3ccfc4dd547213b28fece9502f257cca72d8c1c0c8f2a0b/IMG_5128.JPG" data-mid="224702391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb5dcb64720e9f29c3ccfc4dd547213b28fece9502f257cca72d8c1c0c8f2a0b/IMG_5128.JPG" /> <img width="2522" height="2017" width_o="2522" height_o="2017" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7faaaccbf9b650bd23665e78cfc3bcfc66a02d8012685911d5289160c2bc79fd/L1005102.jpg" data-mid="224702390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7faaaccbf9b650bd23665e78cfc3bcfc66a02d8012685911d5289160c2bc79fd/L1005102.jpg" /> <img width="3460" height="2593" width_o="3460" height_o="2593" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d47e1112103c007c8e3bae5779af4d80f3eb20ebf35b1505aaf8e6c9e4440a86/scan0093-3.jpg" data-mid="224702387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d47e1112103c007c8e3bae5779af4d80f3eb20ebf35b1505aaf8e6c9e4440a86/scan0093-3.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="5314" width_o="3543" height_o="5314" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a772681c034c584b46c365e466209d7db989fbc310d2acb17a6e7a404d720d73/scan0222-30x45cm.jpg" data-mid="224702384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a772681c034c584b46c365e466209d7db989fbc310d2acb17a6e7a404d720d73/scan0222-30x45cm.jpg" /> <img width="2915" height="4092" width_o="2915" height_o="4092" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b611f0dc2668b1bc620d9cf47b4d1c9d5eff1d505325165a250b44400cec68f5/scan0032.jpg" data-mid="224702379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b611f0dc2668b1bc620d9cf47b4d1c9d5eff1d505325165a250b44400cec68f5/scan0032.jpg" /> For more of this story, please reach out mahmoudm (dot) khattab at gmail https://mahmoudkhatab.com/The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted-intro Mon, 23 May 2022 18:21:32 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted-intro https://mahmoudkhatab.com/The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted-story Sun, 03 Apr 2022 20:22:02 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted-story &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In my last days in uniform, Antar would accompany me wherever I go. He would sleep next to me in my&nbsp; guard&nbsp; shifts and&nbsp; wake&nbsp; me&nbsp; up&nbsp; if&nbsp; &nbsp;I fell asleep.&nbsp; He was a&nbsp; scary&nbsp; one year&nbsp; old&nbsp; to&nbsp; many,&nbsp; a&nbsp; deep loving&nbsp; dog&nbsp; to&nbsp; few&nbsp; of&nbsp; us. The Dog Sat Where We Parted2018-2020 A PERSONAL project of my one year long path through service in Egypt. I had to do it. Army service is obligatory for all eligible men here. I could not travel or work unless I do my time.&nbsp; Apart from endless guarding hours, miles of walks everyday, caring for the ill and tending for the wounded as a doctor, I spent my year of service on a trail around the country. I spent most of it in solitude. Suddenly, my aspirations, dreams, feardoms, even my haircut looked just like everyone else’s. It was one of the greatest challenges in my life; to be stripped away of my individuality, to submit and to find comfort in a stranger’s company who looked and dressed just like me. <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31e3554c51c066ee40b8ce66dca8a2febc4795ab2926ca28fddc4a0e3e559d36/01_The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted.jpg" data-mid="139820760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31e3554c51c066ee40b8ce66dca8a2febc4795ab2926ca28fddc4a0e3e559d36/01_The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted.jpg" /> <img width="2493" height="3226" width_o="2493" height_o="3226" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a142525cfcbe90b9935b79a99513004630f32f1651c5cb99e79fbbe96de6080/20180623_192020.jpg" data-mid="139948830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a142525cfcbe90b9935b79a99513004630f32f1651c5cb99e79fbbe96de6080/20180623_192020.jpg" /> I have been marooned.I have been taught to obey. To follow ordersI have been rediculedmade fun ofbeatenthrown in jailI&nbsp; caught a gekoI raised three dogsI heard a snake but never saw itI crieda lotI grew plants. I watered them everyday. Sometimes every other day. I don’t have a name tag. I’m a soldier. Dressed as a soldier. Referred to as a soldier.I saw the last lunar eclipse in awe. It was once in a lifetime. I saw the eclipsed moon and our milky way. Together. <img width="6274" height="11198" width_o="6274" height_o="11198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87e04939f5b3dd71ab50f3a78e64795ce31aa3d2bec8a193e035c05ccb6a3dbf/img326.jpg" data-mid="139981075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87e04939f5b3dd71ab50f3a78e64795ce31aa3d2bec8a193e035c05ccb6a3dbf/img326.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="3508" width_o="2480" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba0654646a8cba5016c08303f05e7c482f079c19b0e1afa8a309ec8ad4c58338/The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted8.jpg" data-mid="138494872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba0654646a8cba5016c08303f05e7c482f079c19b0e1afa8a309ec8ad4c58338/The-Dog-Sat-Where-We-Parted8.jpg" /> I shaved my head like everyone else. We wore camouflaged skin that appealed to sand. <img width="3010" height="3758" width_o="3010" height_o="3758" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c321b0865af685b7d67f743314ef8a32b33d76d94e6746d110776b75ea8f935/20180325_234923.jpg" data-mid="139939513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c321b0865af685b7d67f743314ef8a32b33d76d94e6746d110776b75ea8f935/20180325_234923.jpg" /> <img width="2958" height="3821" width_o="2958" height_o="3821" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/969ab78c063d177ae76cc097a0e7eb5ef5ae534f60347c9e1e765b8830493087/4.jpg" data-mid="139938346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/969ab78c063d177ae76cc097a0e7eb5ef5ae534f60347c9e1e765b8830493087/4.jpg" /> <img width="3041" height="3041" width_o="3041" height_o="3041" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f84989a4698e6d483355ff7641d5d0cbbeeeb7a582854a2f232721840608ada0/2018-03-22-07.20.35-1.jpg" data-mid="142104372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f84989a4698e6d483355ff7641d5d0cbbeeeb7a582854a2f232721840608ada0/2018-03-22-07.20.35-1.jpg" /> for more of this story, contact&nbsp; mahmoudm.khattab (at) gmail (dot) com https://mahmoudkhatab.com/There-Was-a-Valley-Here-Once-Intro Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:47:48 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/There-Was-a-Valley-Here-Once-Intro There Was a Valley Here Once https://mahmoudkhatab.com/There-Was-a-Valley-Here-Once-Body Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:20:28 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/There-Was-a-Valley-Here-Once-Body My father took us in a car ride to see our new home. When I stepped out and told him that all I saw was a desert, he told us how each piece of land will be a house. How each line will be a street. “A city will grow right here.” <img width="2439" height="1742" width_o="2439" height_o="1742" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9fea99fc30e470c1b6578ddc4707d6d7091eb9a85a26a5b02758343a0036a86/30-3-2017019.jpg" data-mid="186563340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9fea99fc30e470c1b6578ddc4707d6d7091eb9a85a26a5b02758343a0036a86/30-3-2017019.jpg" /> <img width="4756" height="3162" width_o="4756" height_o="3162" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d303d8e35a4103fdf2cca918056e6eaa1cb30315c0f11ff3b891053032529709/MAHMOUD05-2.jpg" data-mid="202764719" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d303d8e35a4103fdf2cca918056e6eaa1cb30315c0f11ff3b891053032529709/MAHMOUD05-2.jpg" /> THERE WAS A VALLEY HERE ONCE 2017 - present This is a search for a disappearing valley that I have been tracing since 2017 in Eastern Desert of Cairo There Was a Valley Here Once is a reminiscence of how our cities once looked like in a distant past. Hidden in layers, sometimes history will reveal itself to you as a reminder, and a witness of how fast millenniums and epochs of slow breaths will change into a memory. Our relationship with landscapes has evolved. For a long time, they imposed their presence on us and our cultures. Our histories and folklore music are full of mountains we took refuge in. Hills we built houses on top of. Canyons we trekked through. Deserts that loomed over ourishing banks of the Nile river. Valleys whose tracks we followed back home. What has changed only few decades ago? What allowed within four years an entire city emerge on top of a valley that once fed a river along its tributaries? <img width="1006" height="1257" width_o="1006" height_o="1257" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f036dfe2c3ce841e2b2e15772d86b1678c3a55fbadc38c6e642f6a09ad618c08/image020.jpg" data-mid="202764697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f036dfe2c3ce841e2b2e15772d86b1678c3a55fbadc38c6e642f6a09ad618c08/image020.jpg" /> <img width="1972" height="2465" width_o="1972" height_o="2465" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f68995e01a5f38ef0a10a3065fd19e7e0db0b9c7162234039ded300d6413b7fc/MAHMOUD30.jpg" data-mid="186605679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f68995e01a5f38ef0a10a3065fd19e7e0db0b9c7162234039ded300d6413b7fc/MAHMOUD30.jpg" /> <img width="1821" height="2707" width_o="1821" height_o="2707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/01656331fba878cac5d15975e6ae7215a7c27101d9621c29afb84d73dd2f4947/L1005053.jpg" data-mid="187705690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/01656331fba878cac5d15975e6ae7215a7c27101d9621c29afb84d73dd2f4947/L1005053.jpg" /> For more of this story, reach out to mahmoudm(dot)khattab at gmail https://mahmoudkhatab.com/There-Was-a-Valley-Here-Once-Outro Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:01:17 +0000 Mahmoud Khattab https://mahmoudkhatab.com/There-Was-a-Valley-Here-Once-Outro I am becoming more assuring of my heartbeats They are knocking on the night doors of a hill that I’ve known to let everyone there knowI’m here, alonebefore it’s gone