Randa Shaath (b. United States, 1963) lived for ten years on the fourteenth floor of an apartment building in Cairo, and watched with amazement the life that went on on the roofs beneath her. She decided to photograph it, in doing so recording a world that remains hidden from the streets of Cairo.

She worked on various projects in Palestine, Nubian villages, and Cairo. In the Cairo project she captured daily life in the city, on the streets and the rooftops, and on its forgotten islands…

Under the Same Sky