Sumaya Agha is a photographer living in California. She graduated from Cal Poly State University, San Luis, Obispo, with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Art and Design and a concentration in photography. She worked for PLAZM magazine in Portland, OR and DoubleTake magazine in Boston. Her work has been published in the New York Times Online and the San Francisco Chronicle. Currently Sumaya is focusing on sharing images of daily life within the Middle East, to help Westerners see the humanity and the similarities between themselves and the people of this culturally diverse, notably historical region of the World.