Amaal Younes is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and craft-based practitioner born in Cairo, Egypt, now based in Washington, DC. Her work is rooted in material exploration, storytelling, and the cultural intimacy of handmade objects. Moving between book arts, design, and visual practice, she is interested in how craft can hold memory, emotion, and community.

Her passion for the arts started from the IB Arts Program from her schooling which inspired her to then study Applied Sciences and Arts at the German University in Cairo, where she developed a foundation in graphic, product, and media design. In 2017, she co-founded Grain Studio, a bookbinding and craft initiative that combined traditional handwork with collaborative making and social engagement.

Alongside her studio practice, she has worked extensively in branding and visual identity design, supporting creative and community-driven projects through thoughtful visual systems.

Her current body of work, Hands of a Wanderer, explores migration, belonging, and slow making through functional objects and narrative craft. Through tactile processes and intentional production, she considers craft as both a personal language and a shared archive of experience.