Diana Matar’s photographs accompany I Found Myself . . . The Last Dreams by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, translated and introduced by Hisham Matar.
Featured in the Financial Times (28th May 2025), the book weaves together dream fragments and atmospheric visuals into a quietly powerful elegy of memory, love, and longing.
"These tantalising scraps stir and move. They never quite fuse into a single story. Something in them resists translation from night into day, just as Diana Matar’s intriguingly shaded, cropped and angled photos tempt us with the promise of a narrative — and deny it. We learn that private experience, asleep or awake, will always escape its interpretations. Both words and images guard their mystery." – Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
Read the full article at FT.com
