Salwa Rashad is a Cairo-based photographer. Her images from Tahrir Square will be on display this Wednesday, Jan. 25, for the book launch of The People Is Singular at Cafe Istanbul in the New Orleans Healing Center. January 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution.

The People Is Singular is a new chapbook, published by Press Street, of poetry by Andy Young and photos by Rashad. Young is co-editor, along with Khaled Hegazzi, of Meena Magazine, a bi-lingual literary journal based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Egypt.

To read an interview with Andy Young and for more information about the book launch —which will include live music, projections by video artist Kourtney Keller, an installation of Rashad’s photos, and more —visit Room 220.