STOLEN: Iconoclasm, Restitution & Redistributing Power, Dialectic
Dialectic is an American born hip hop artist of Pakistani descent who has grown up and lived in Toronto, Canada ever since immigrating...
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Islamic Art & NFT’s, Miriam Motlak
Where are you from and how did your journey as an artist begin? Although I’m half Syrian and half Palestinian, I was raised in Riyadh,...
The Abbasid History Podcast, Talha Ahsan
Talha Ahsan hosts the Abbasid History Podcast - an audio platform for the study of the pre-modern Islamic(ate) past. The Abbasid History...
The Diaspora Experience: Telling Our Own Stories, Aaraf Adam
Aaraf Adam is a 21-year-old Sudanese- American, Muslim creator, and independent filmmaker. She produces narrative art with intention and...
Reconfiguring Music for the Present, Waseelah Smedley
Waseelah Smedley is a singer, songwriter, musician and producer from the UK. Here, she shares her thoughts on reconfiguring music for the...
Islam & Anime, Religiously Nerdy
Religiously Nerdy are determined to identify spirituality in anime, manga, and pop culture. They want to build a community of fellow...
The Misrepresentation of Muslim Women & Celebrating Authenticity, Muslim Sisterhood
Muslim Sisterhood is an artistic collective working within photography, fashion publishing and events to create an inclusive community...
Muslims in the Metaverse: Future Islamic Design, Peter Gould
Space mosque? Holo calligraphy? Buraq travel in VR? Muslims in the metaverse is a concept award-winning designer and entrepreneur, Peter...
Nostalgia & Dreaming Futures: Art as Protest, Adra Kandil
Adra Kandil (more widely known as Dear Nostalgia) is a female visual artist and designer. She was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. Her...
Creative, Deaf & Muslim: Challenging Inclusion, Sahera Khan
Sahera Khan is Muslim, Deaf and British South Asian, her native language is British Sign Language. She lives in London and is a freelance...
Brandalism and Reclaiming Public Spaces, Teakster
Teakster offers a refreshing new take on Islamic art in the 21st century. His style is a fusion of Islamic artistic traditions and modern...
More than Patterns: Social justice, Equality and Equity, Shaheen Kasmani
Shaheen is a London born and raised, east African Asian textile artist and designer with a background in language, literature and...
Decolonising & Democratising Culture, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a writer, spoken-word poet and educator. Her work interrogates narratives around race, gender, Islamophobia,...
Unapologetic: Portraiture Disrupting Political Narratives, Azraa Motala
Azraa Motala is a British artist and graduate of the MA Fine Art program at the Chelsea College of Arts. In 2017, she graduated from the...
Empathy, Race & Politics, Kevyan Shovir
For Keyvan Shovir, being an artist is fundamentally about bringing truth and awareness to injustice. We talked to Kevyan about his...
Rumi without Islam: the cultural appropriation of Rumi
Rumi is… cool. Beyonce named one of her children Rumi. Brad Pitt has a tattoo of Rumi poetry. Coldplay incorporated Rumi poetry into...
Social Justice & The Muslim Artivist, Kelly Izdihar Crosby
One of the many things I love about being artist is being able to express myself through visual media. My artwork is centered around many...
Challenging the validity of ‘representation’
Nasima Begum (aka Nasima Bee on stage) is a performance poet, producer and creative practitioner. She uses art as a means of activism and...
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