''We live in a border zone, between two worlds.'

After spending their studies straddling two different cultures, many Bedouin women slowly find themselves alienated from both ways of life. Entering university with its Westernised norms, attitudes and lifestyles was described by many as a shock. But after completing their studies, returning to their villages was considered an even greater trauma because of the changes in identity that the women had undergone during their studies. On returning to their community, many found that the values and norms of freedom and individual choice they had experienced and internalised were incompatible with Bedouin society. Caught between a culture they have partially left and another they can never fully enter, many women feel suspended in a strange border zone between two worlds.

Here, two linked silhouetted profiles look in opposite directions. Are they looking into the other world with longing or anxiety? Currently poised in the centre, is one side going to advance and eclipse the other?