Sara Barackzay is 24-year-old animation artist and one of the very first and few in her country to follow animation arts professionaly. For Barackzay, who lost her hearing as a child, animation was a universal language which presented her with a world full of possibilities. Despite the lack of support from her extended family members, she left Afghanistan …
Lida Abdul is the first artist from her country to represent Afghanistan at the 51st edition of the Venice Biennale in 2005. Her art explores issues of migration, remembrance and memory through performance and video. Born in Kabul but forced to leave her country with her family after Soviet invasion, Abdul’s work provides a thorough examination of …
Afghan women have been one of the most proficient weavers of hand-made rugs of intricate design for thousands of years. It was in 1979, soon after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that the usuals floral motifs were replaced with images of ammunition and war scenes. Iconography in propaganda leaflets that were dropped from U.S. military …
The global pandemic has not only resulted in a major health crisis, but has had severe implications on how we work, learn and interact. Social scientists have described the COVID-19 pandemic as a point of rupture, a breakdown in the habitual order of things in the domain of the ‘normal’ or ‘ordinary’. Our perception of …
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