Hafsa Boraei, a Sudanese photographer and filmmaker, was born in Benghazi in 1990 and lives in Cairo. She holds a master’s degree in communication sciences from the University of Sudan. Beginning her photography journey in 2020 during the December Revolution, she has since worked in visual journalism and social documentation, focusing on women’s issues, social justice, and marginalized communities. Her work documents the effects of the Sudanese war on refugees and displaced people in Egypt, and the lives of Sudanese women running small businesses in exile. She has photographed inside major displacement camps in Darfur and Kordofan, capturing moments of resistance and identity formation. In 2022, she held her first solo exhibition on women’s experiences during the “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” and participated in the group show City Life: Resilience. Hafsa uses the camera as a tool for listening and enabling voices, reclaiming forgotten spaces through visual stories that embrace both silence and movement. Her first film, Braids of Identity, continues her exploration of popular aesthetics as acts of resistance and feminist narratives confronting erasure and exile.