Born in Ethiopia in 1974, Aida Muluneh left the country at a young age and spent an itinerant childhood between Cyprus, Yemen and England. After several years in a boarding school in Cyprus, she finally settled in Canada in 1985. In hight school, inspired by distorted media images of the Ethiopian famine, she began taking photographs.

After studying film at Howard University in Washington DC, she went on to work as a freelance photographer for The Washington Post. Then in 2003, Muluneh was chosen to be part of the groundbreaking show "Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. Later that same year, she made an appearance on "Imagenes Havana" a group photography exhibition in Havana, Cuba - the same fortuitous encounter that led to "The Unhealing Wound". As with her photographs, she continues in this powerful documentary to explore her own stated fascination with "how much cultural retention is possible without, necessarily, cultural interaction".

Muluneh's photographs can be found in permanent collections of several museums in the United States. She is also the recipient of the European Union prize for her work on Ethiopia in the 7th Biennale Afrique en Creations - Nouvelles Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, in Bamako, Mali.

Aida Muluneh is also the founder of D.E.S.T.A for Africa, an NGO that promotes photography in Africa through workshops, exhibitions and exchange. She lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.