Aisha = 'Ā'ishah /
Aisha = عائشة /
"A 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 artists' book of Yemeni-Egyptian American ph...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Language Notes: | Parallel texts in English and Arabic. |
| Published: |
Zurich :
Patrick Frey,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Edition Patrick Frey (Series) ;
no. 368. |
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| Summary: | "A 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 artists' 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 landscapes of the MENA region. Searching for an understanding of the tattoos that graced her great-grandmother's body, Al-Arashi embraces the complexities of a symbolic matriarchal tradition. Unable to visit one of her places of origin, the war-stricken Yemen, Al-Arashi traveled through Northern Africa, where she met and photographed a diverse group of women belonging more or less to the same generation. By refusing the violence of selection and definition surrounding women's practices, Al-Arashi publishes every single photograph from her journey in this 392 page monograph, moving the work into an ethereal cinematic celebration. Aisha includes Al-Arashi's prose and poetry in which she reflects on memories of her great-grandmother. In her genre-stretching texts, Al-Arashi also speaks on colonial archives, intergenerational storytelling and the complexities of transnational female Arab identity in patriarchal, capitalist and imperialist societies." -- Printed Matter website. |
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| Item Description: | Spine title. "Al-ṣuwar wa-al-kitābah Yumná al-ʻArshī"--colophon. "Photographs and writing by Yumna Al-Arashi"--colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783907236680 3907236688 |