Complex sentence: When Alaoui turned 18, she moved to New York to study photography at the City University of New York, then to Europe before returning to Morocco in 2008, with visits on a regular basis to Beirut and Paris.
Split into simpler sentences: When Alaoui turned 18, she moved to New York to study photography at the City University of New York. After school, she returned to Europe before returning to Morocco in 2008, with visits on a regular basis to Beirut and Paris.