the team

Karim Ben Khelifa has been an award-winning war correspondent and photojournalist since 1998. He has been on assignment for publications such as Le Monde, Stern, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, in countries such as Pales-tine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, South Soudan, Iran, Kashmir, Yemen, North Korea, Libya, Egypt…

Karim is widely known for his coverage of the Middle East conflicts and troubles, especially the Iraq and Afghan wars, where he covered the insurgent sides. He has worked in more than 80 countries and territories and has held exhibitions in four continents. He is a board member of the American Documentary Innovation at PBS in New York City and serve the advisory board at the Center for Advanced Virtuality at MIT. Ben Khelifa was in 2012 the Carroll Binder Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism where he has given talks and lectures in different schools of Harvard University. In 2013/2014 he was a fellow and Artist-in-Residence at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT. In the academic years of 2015/2017, he was a visiting Artist at the Center for Art, Science and Technology as well as a fellow at the Imagination, Computation and Expression Lab, both at MIT in Cambridge.

He is the director of the multi-user installation in virtual and augmented reality, The Enemy, which premiered in Paris in 2017 and was since presented in Tel Aviv, at the MIT Museum in Boston, at the Centre Phi in Montreal, and the Geneva International Film Festival during the 2018 PeaceWeek conference. As an award-winning project, The Enemy was selected as one of the 80 journalistic projects that have influenced journalism the most by Harvard University. The AR app of the project has been downloaded in more than 115 countries.