Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Selected exhibitions and biennials include Mapping Subjectivity: Experimental Cinema in The Arab World, MoMA, New York; Live Cinema, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Ground Floor America, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; and Homeworks 5, Beirut (all 2010); Past of the Coming Days, 9th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (2009); PhotoCairo 4, Contemporary Image Collective – CiC, Cairo (2008); Global Cities, Tate Modern, London (2007); C on Cities, 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice; Snap Judgments, International Center of Photography – ICP, New York (both 2006); and DAK’ART 6, Dakar (2004). She was co-curator of PhotoCairo3, an International Visual Arts festival in Cairo (2005), and assistant curator for Meeting Points 5, an International Multidisciplinary Contemporary Arts Festival (2007). Maamoun is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), a space for contemporary arts and culture in Cairo.