Sanaa gets lost in public transportation; Ola wants to educate her children; Ejlal feels almost blind looking at a text and not being able to read it; and for all these reasons these women from the poorest areas of Cairo attend literacy classes at the Association for the Development and Enhancement for Women (ADEW). Palestinian photographer Laura Boushnak lets us into the world of these women who have chosen to fight against the injustices of the society they live in. Yet the word 'victim' is hardly proper when looking at this series of portraits. The project called I read, I write allows these women to take pride in their achievements by inviting them to comment with their own words on their portraits. The sentences are simple, but the words are powerful, challenging the prejudiced. The soft faces are bathed in natural light, but the looks upon them are fierce and resilient. Laura Boushnak offers here extremely intimate moments captured from a daily struggle in which the only weapons are pencils and smiles.