Morehshin Allahyari is a NY and Bay Area based Iranian-Kurdish artist, using 3D simulation, video, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to re-figure myth and history. Through archival practices and storytelling, her work weaves together complex counternarratives in opposition to the lasting influence of Western technological colonialism in the context of MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Huma (2017) is part of a series, She Who Sees the Unknown, an ongoing research project into female and gender non-binary monsters and jinn.