Rita Kabalan is a Lebanese American photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Beirut. Her work has focused primarily on cultural heritage, displacement, migration, uprisings, and environment. She covered the Egyptian revolution in 2013, refugee crisis in Europe in 2015, the South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda in 2017, and the revolution in Lebanon in 2019 where she continues to cover social issues. She ran the visual documentation of the environmental waste crisis in Lebanon for the Waste Management Coalition, and has taught photography workshops at organizations like Migrant Community Center, _1MoreCup, Kafa (Beirut), Phlog (Cairo), and with the EveryDayProjects (Turkey). Her work has been showcased at PCNW gallery in Seattle, at Ked Beirut where she also curated The Indivisible show for 1MoreCup Media Organization. She has been published in Al Jazeera English, Le Temp, Foreign Policy, Middle East Eye, Guernica Magazine, The Public Source, among other outlets. Rita is also a contributor to the EveryDay Middle East Instagram account.
