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Born in Kuwait in 1974, Ala' Younis graduated with a B.Sc. in Architecture from the University of Jordan in 1997. She had her first solo exhibition at the French Cultural Center in Amman in 2004. In addition to participating in several collective exhibitions in Jordan, Younis has displayed her work internationally in numerous group shows such as the Iran 3rd biennale – "Art in the Contemporary Islamic World" held in Tehran in 2005, the 12th Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2006, and an exhibition of video works organized by the Association des Instants Video in Marseille, France in 2007. Younis has taken part in more than 15 workshops led by artists and curators from all over the world. She was awarded a Grant from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs for a two month residency at the F+F School of Art & Media Design in Zürich in 2007. In 2005, she received the 2nd Prize for Non Egyptians at the 17th Youth Salon in Cairo and the 3rd Prize at the Annual Exhibition of the Jordanian Artists Association in Amman.Label Type
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"Re-interpreting the Middle East II: Artists Re-thinking
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Organizer: May Hariri Aboutaam
Re-interpreting the Middle East is a print exchange and a thematic portfolio that is a foundation for a discussion on paper. It functions as an abstraction of behavior (artistic, cultural and social level) and increases the individual understanding of a particular issue by creating the environment for an interactive and thriving community.
This collection furthers the groupís interest to explore the infinite world of terms referring to misrepresentations about the Middle East. This stigmatized Middle East is under a large campaign of invented new terminology some of it action based and some of it descriptive such as: Islam-phobia, the new world, re-create, re-structure, re-map, re-organize all in the name of democratization. Each artist is asked to seek visual representations of these terms within his/her background and experiences.
List of participants:
May Hariri Aboutaam, Sadik Alfraji, Samia Allaw, Sama Alshaibi, Stephanie Bacon, Heather Bryant, Dina Charara, Chaouki Chamoun, Youmna Chlala, Matthew J. Egan, Gordon Fluke, Annie Gedicks, Samina Iqbal, Hiba Kalache, Ina Kaur, Zusan Khayrallah, Scott Ludwig, Heather Muise, Candace Nicol, Andrew Polk, Kathryn Reeves, Jeffrey Rollins, Annie Ross, Farouk Saad, Nada shalaby, Ozlem Silverstein, Sylvia Taylor, Melanie walker, Sue Wilson, Melanie Yazzie, Ala younis, Sang Mi Yoo. Stacy Elko, Elizabeth Klimek and Delita Martin."