Aisha – Yumna Al-Arashi seed Malwine Stauss

Malwine Stauss

published in March 2020

In this state of suspension and liminality

Dotted reverse side to encourage reuse

” translated by Cara Piraino

Aisha – Yumna Al-Arashi seed Malwine StaussA stirring love letter to the artist's great grandmother, Aisha, and a visual and poetic homage to an elderly generation of women across the Middle East and Northern Africa the very matriarchies Al Arashi descends from. This is the first artist's book of Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al Arashi (born 1988). Inspired by Al Arashi's great grandmother, Aisha, the book is a homage to the lineage of women from the many layered