{"product_id":"yumna-al-arashi-aisha-9783907236680","title":"Yumna Al-Arashi: Aisha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAisha\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Patrick Frey Edition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50919532921106,"sku":"9783907236680","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cffc33c3-aae3-499d-ace6-394ee87ca244.jpg?v=1738897712","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/yumna-al-arashi-aisha-9783907236680","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}