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An Israeli airstrike thunders near a mosque in Gaza City, Saturday, November 17, 2012. (Reuters)

YUNA FOR WETHEURBAN ISSUE 5

WORDS: JASON O’TOOLE / PHOTOGRAPHY: ARAM BEDROSSIAN / STYLING: FANNY BOURDETTE-DONON / MAKEUP: KUNIO KATAOKA / ASST: BARBIE C. DANIELS

Yunalis Zarai (aka Yuna) has been on a tear since signing with Fader Label in 2010. She released her first EP project Decorate in March of last year. After quickly gaining notoriety in Malaysia, her name began leaking into the States, climaxing into her well-known collaboration with Pharrell Williams. Her first full-length album, released in January, is self-titled and deeply autobiographical autobiographical.

1) play the guitar 2) do the running man 3) make pretty bad ass shrimp tomyam 

..this happened to me too in Malaysia. A motorbike came to me stop in front of me few secs and grabbed my phone from my hands and ….gone. I was sad because that phone had an important place in my life already, this was the first such thing happened to me in Malaysia in 4 years.