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The Visual Politics of Palestine Solidarity: Naji al-Ali’s Handala
Naji al-Ali ’s Handala, presented in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and by many pro-Palestine initiatives, is a well known cartoon character associated with Palestinian resistance. In this article, Marina Hamanaka (a PhD student in Area Studies, at The University of Tokyo) tells us about the story behind Handala, and her research exploring…
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What is the Role of Queer Cinema When the Streets Are Burning?
What role can queer cinema play when societies are confronting political crises? And how might film programming become a practice of collective care rather than cultural consumption? In this blog post, Rizky Rahad, an Indonesian filmmaker, programmer, researcher, and co-founder of the Bali-based queer cinema collective QAMERAD, reflects on his presentation at the Eye International…
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Singing Bhakti: The Story Behind Heli
In this Q&A Poshali Goel, a filmmaker and editor with a background in design based in Delhi, India, talks about her film Heli, which follows the lives of two siblings whose love for singing carries Bhakti poetry into both public and private worlds. Made as part of her master’s thesis, Heli explores gender dynamics and…
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From Technology to Creativity: Mala Kumar on Social Action Through Art
In part two of our Q&A with Mala Kumar, a global leader in technology for social good who has worked with the United Nations, the World Health Organization and GitHub, we speak to her about her two critically acclaimed novels, The Paths of Marriage and What it Meant to Survive. Her writing explores a myriad…
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Now Open: 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Wasafiri is Britain’s leading magazine of international contemporary literature. Launched in 1984, for forty years Wasafiri has been committed to discovering, supporting, and showcasing the full breadth of literary voices on all points of the globe. Read on to learn about their 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing…
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End of the Indus: An Artistic Exploration of a Decaying Delta
Saba Khan is a visual artist and Associate Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art, London. Her multimedia works traffics into the language of memorial, monument and expeditions around water bodies and infrastructures. This blog post chronicles an expedition (and the resultant exhibition, The Tide Country) in which she led a group of female Pakistani artists…
