Photographer based in Cairo, Egypt >> Shawn Baldwin

Portraits

Emad el Madani, 25, from Libya. He has lived in Dubai for 7 years and works in real estate sales. ''When I went to Dubai, I felt things could go either way, one can choose his group here - do you want to be religious? Or do you want to be liberal? You can be both. In other places, this is not really possible. A guy decides to be religious in the West, he will stand out. A guy decides to be liberal in the Middle East, he will stand out. This doesn't happen in Dubai.'' August 2008.
Emad el Madani, 25, from Libya. He has lived in Dubai for 7 years and works in real estate sales.

''When I went to Dubai, I felt things could go either way, one can choose his group here - do you want to be religious? Or do you want to be liberal? You can be both. In other places, this is not really possible. A guy decides to be religious in the West, he will stand out. A guy decides to be liberal in the Middle East, he will stand out. This doesn't happen in Dubai.'' August 2008.