[2][3] Her publication projects include 'Needles to Rockets' (2009), 'Tin Soldiers' (2012), and the non-profit publishing initiative Kayfa-ta, a series of cost-effective Arabic monographs on how to, co-founded with artist Maha Maamoun.
[6][7] Younis is a contributing editor for the artist magazine Ibraaz[8] and a research scholar at the Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, at the NYU Abu Dhabi.
It features a curious installation delving into the heart-stopping history of Sami Mohammad's statues, alongside a ruminative, achingly lonely series of photographs mounted on light boxes by the artist Tarek al-Ghoussein.
Ghoussein's "K-Files" represent a seamless and gorgeous continuation of his staged self-portraiture series, working in a mode he calls performance photography.
[19] Her other curatorial projects include: 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 were among the country's plan to nationalize industrial production and to create productive symbols of Egyptian sovereignty.
[27] "For Younis, its manufacture was a 'feminist project' that, although it confined women to the domestic space, also, 'aimed at empowering Egyptian housewives, since it gave them a chance to earn money while their husbands were away fighting'.
"UAR" (2014) is 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).
The project starts from a photograph of Nasser looking onto an enthusiastic and proud Arab crowd during the signing of a sovereign union agreement between Egypt and Syria in 1958.
Her project "Plan for Greater Baghdad" was selected for "All the World's Futures" curated by Okwui Enwezor for the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and show in Arsenale in 2015.
Participation took the form of a curated exhibition at the 5th floor titled "An Index of Tensional and Unintentional Love of Land"[38] – Multitude, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo – Tea with Nefertiti, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich – UAR, solo exhibition at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo – Meeting Points 7, Ten thousand wiles and a hundred thousand tricks, Cairo, Hong Kong, Beirut, Antwerp and Zaghreb 2013: – Tea with Nefertiti, IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha[39] – 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Lichtburg Filmpalast, Oberhausen 2012: – ROUNDTABLE, 9th Gwangju Biennial, curated by Nancy Adajania – The Ungovernables, exhibition curated by Eunjie Joo, New Museum Triennial, New York – A Gathering, curated by Maria-Thalia Carras and Olga Hatzidaki, Athens – London Palestine Film Festival, London 2011: – Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffman, Istanbul 2010: – Home Works 5’, forum and exhibition curated by Christine Tohme, Beirut Art Center, Beirut – Solo exhibition at Delfina Foundation, London 2009: Solo exhibition at Darat al Funun, Amman 2008: – PhotoCairo 4: The Long Shortcut, curated by Aleya Hamza and Edit Molnar, Hungarian Cultural Center, Cairo – The Third International Biennale for the Artist's Book 2008, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Ala Younis published "Needles to Rockets"[40] with Motaz Attalla in 2009.
The publication collects personal responses to questions that emerge around the place of consumer products in the lives of people and in society at large in Egypt.