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Xenia Nikolskaya is an award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer, curator and educator currently based in Cairo. She has been a curator at the Russian National Centre of Photography (ROSFOTO) and Head of RIA Novosti exhibition department and photo archive. She has taught photography in the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and also held academic positions at the American University in Cairo and Rutgers University, New Jersey. Since 2019 she is Assistant Professor of Photography at the German University in Cairo. A Fulbright fellow, Nikolskaya holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sunderland, UK. Out of the more than 40 international exhibitions in which her work has been showcased, 20 were solo shows. Her works are held in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg among other institutions. She is the author of “Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture” (AUC Press, 2 editions) and, more recently, “The House My Grandfather Built,” which won the Swedish Photobook award in 2021, and editor of “Anatoly Garanin, Soviet Union.”