Yumna Al-Arashi interview by Taous Dahmani

Yumna Al-Arash

Through a wide variety of media – photography, book and sculpture – the artist addresses the stereotyping of women, the way the Arab world is depicted, the legacy of colonialism in our thoughts, and matriarchal traditions.

Taous Dahmani

Dr Taous Dahmani is a London-based French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator specialising in photography. Her academic research focuses on the photographic representation of struggles and the struggle for photographic representation. Her projects mainly involve the links between photography and politics – such as the visual culture of protests, migratory narratives, and intersectional feminist discourses. She has been published in a variety of scientific journals and regularly gives papers at academic conferences. She also writes for art magazines and is frequently invited to hold conversations with photographers. Since September 2025 she is curator at the Photographers’ Gallery in London.