Yomna Mohamed is an Egyptian Artist and Graphic Designer working across analogue photography, multilingual typography, Risograph printing, and vernacular imagery. Her practice explores Arab visual culture through everyday photographs, printed ephemera, and domestic environments, with a particular interest in how images and objects can carry memory, cultural identity, and ideas of home. Her work has been exhibited at Printed Matter Art Book Fair, Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, IFPDA FAIR, and Storefront for Art and Architecture Book Bash 2026.
Mohamed is a recent Parsons School of Design graduate, where she received a BFA in Communication Design with a minor in Photography and Departmental Honors. Working across art direction, music, and cultural spaces, her practice spans design, image-making, and publishing. She is further interested in expanding into immersive, spatial, and experiential work. She is also Co-Organizer of MENA Creative Collective, a New York–based collective supporting Middle Eastern and African creatives through workshops, talks, critiques, and collaborative programming.
Currently, Yomna is developing her experimental publishing project, Gust For You, as well as documenting the Arab American diaspora in New York through an ongoing photo series embracing performance, and often over-the-top aesthetics common in immigrant households.
She is currently producing her debut photobook, Eskenderiyah 😍 She is currently producing her debut photobook, Eskenderiyah 😍
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Sounds of Resistance
Sounds of ResistanceSounds of Resistance is a Sound Collective Amplifying Censored Voices from the MENA Region and Beyond
An initiative dedicated to amplifying the voices of censored artists and musicians. Rooted in the belief that music is both resistance and survival, the project centers artists who use sound to challenge regimes, reclaim identity, and document political struggle. In response to digital censorship, the project embraces analog formats—zines, print media, merchandise, and physical music—as tools for cultural resistance and word-of-mouth circulation.
Future concepts include a radio show, pop-up listening rooms, public installations, and auditory exhibits in cities with large Arab and SWANA diasporas—featuring vinyl drops, printed handouts, and community-driven engagement.
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initiated Sounds of Resistance out of a deep love for world music and a personal journey through Egyptian soundscapes. Over time, I realized that music often carries political weight, even without lyrics. My interest in this topic was first sparked by mahraganat, a folk street genre born in the margins of Egypt. Mahraganat has been criminalized and censored by the state for its association with lower-class life, open criticism of the government, and depictions of everyday struggle, addiction, and joy. Through genres like mahraganat and electro chaabi, Sounds of Resistance seeks to reframe the narrative around street music—exploring the politicization of sound.
I'm interested in music that moves through memory, migration, protest, and joy—one track at a time.
Artists are arrested, exiled, or erased. Yet, they continue to create. Sounds of Resistance is both a living archive and a radical act of visibility—one that honors past struggles and connects them to the sounds of today.