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Alia Yunis

New York University Abu Dhabi/CIE-Center for International Heritage Activities, United Arab Emirates

Alia Yunis works with the intersecting fields of environment and transoceanic heritage, particularly in the Muslim and Arab worlds and their diaspora. As a scholar, journalist, author and filmmaker, her work has been translated into 10 languages. Heritage Futures: Stories in the Global Heritage Industry, an edited volume focused on Asia and Africa, was just published (Routledge, London, 2024). Her feature documentary, The Golden Harvest, about the heritage and future of the olive tree and the people of the Mediterranean, continues to play in festivals and events around the world, most recently at the Smithsonian. The Golden Harvest led to Tree Routed, an interactive platform globally connecting personal heritage stories about trees (in production). She is in early production on films about the complicated heritage of the date palm. Alia co-edited Re-Orienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean Meet (Indiana University Press, 2024). Her novel,The Night Counter (Random House 2010), has been critically acclaimed by the Washington Post and several other publications. She is a visiting associate professor of film and heritage studies at NYU Abu Dhabi and program director for CIE -Center for International Heritage Activities in the Netherlands.

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