Somaya Abdelrahman was born in Egypt1996.studied GIS at Helwan Uninersity in Cairo.

Currently lives in Turkey, she started as a photojournalist worked for couple of Egyptian newspapers.

In 2019,Selected as one of the 9 grantees of the Magnum Foundation and AFAC grant.Her work largely focuses on documenting social issues and human rights.In 2020 She won TYTW's Emerging Photographers Fellowship Program with Too young to wed and Canon US. Somaya is currently studying photography and journalism at Hanover University in Germany.