Copyright: Neha Tara Mehta
Hadear Kandil is an Egyptian-American who studied at the American University in Cairo and took an active part in the Arab Spring. Currently a political science student at Hunter College, she continues to do her bit for the ongoing revolution through her online activism on Twitter and her blog, tahririnnyc.com.
These photos were taken for Melanie Burford’s photojournalism class on portraits at Columbia University.