‘Scratched Identities’: Shatha Altowai on Creating Art in Yemen

Yemeni artist and IASH/IIE Artist Protection Fund Fellow Shatha Altowai discusses her experiences of creating art as a woman in Yemen, as well as the common Yemeni practice of obscuring women’s faces in photographs. This piece by GENDER.ED student intern Shy Zvouloun is in advance of the artist’s second exhibition in Scotland: ‘Scratched Identities’.