Tanya Habjouqa was born in Amman and educated in the United States, receiving her masters specializing in Middle East Media from the University of London
SOAS. She has spent the last six years documenting for media and NGOs inside Iraq, Darfur, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. Habjouqa received the 2007 Clarion Press award for her coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah war for Bloomberg. She is published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Focus, Jerusalem Report, Beirut Daily Star, Business Week,
NOX, Conde Naste, and the academic journal: Cultures of Resistance.
Currently based between Beirut and Amman, she is working on personal projects exploring socio-political dynamics and subcultures of the Levant.