Ala Younis is an artist, with curatorial, film and publishing projects. Using objects, film, and printed matter, Younis often seeks instances where historical and political events collapse into personal ones. She is co-founder of the publishing initiative Kayfa ta, co-Head of Berlinale’s Forum Expanded, and Artistic Director of  the Academy of the Arts of the World (Cologne). She is research scholar at al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Image credits: Leonie Hugendubel