"I really felt like it was a crucial moment, and if I had something that I believed in, then I really owed it to myself to express that," she told me.

“我真切的感到这是一个关键时刻，我觉得真的自己亏欠一个亲自表达我确信的事物的机会”她这样告诉我“我算了一下，自己快50了，应该尽快的行动起来。”

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Hammam's work was censored under the old regime -- "I took some pictures of the state-run mental asylum and they didn't like that, " she said -- and she believed it remained to be seen whether there would be greater space in the new Egypt for artistic expression.

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