Ala Younis was born in Kuwait in 1974, holds a Masters in Research in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London ( public research university in London, England, specialising in the arts, design, humanities, and social sciences) then she moved to Amman in 1984 where her projects begin with found objects and images that might initially seem odd or intriguing, for instance, Nefertiti (2008) is an installation of video and defunct sewing machines (Nefertiti) that were produced and sold in Egypt after the 1952 revolution and in 2014 another project saw her working with found objects which was UAR" (2014),  a series, of drawings and found objects, that studies the stories and mechanisms that produced Gamal Abdel Nasser's historical figure in the time of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971).
Ala Younis was born in Kuwait in 1974, holds a Masters in Research in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London ( public research university in London, England, specialising in the arts, design, humanities, and social sciences) then she moved to Amman in 1984 where her projects begin with found objects and images that might initially seem odd or intriguing, for instance, Nefertiti (2008) is an installation of video and defunct sewing machines (Nefertiti) that were produced and sold in Egypt after the 1952 revolution and in 2014 another project saw her working with found objects which was UAR" (2014),  a series, of drawings and found objects, that studies the stories and mechanisms that produced Gamal Abdel Nasser's historical figure in the time of the United Arab Republic (1958–1971).