Student Question Time – knife crime, Brexit, racism and tuition fees
Organised, produced and recorded by students, with Samosa Media and Three Blokes Productions. This Question Time was developed through workshops run by Samosa…
The importance of education and the arts to working class young people
Anwar Akhtar’s talk to Sir John Cass sixth form on 25th October 2018. Anwar is director of The Samosa. He led The Royal…
Sir John Cass sixth form Question Time
The students of Sir John Cass sixth form proudly bring you their Question Time show, held on 26th June 2018. Topics of discussion…
Pakistan’s best kept secret – Lahore Museum
On Wednesday 1 May, Birkbeck’s Centre for Museum Cultures hosted the launch of Anwar Akhtar’s new film: Pakistan’s Best Kept Secret – Lahore Museum. The film…
Pakistan’s Best Kept Secret: Lahore Museum
Distinguished Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford Professor Dame Marina Warner and Edward Mortimer former adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan discuss Pakistan’s Best Kept…
The Gandhi in our midst
By Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar On Jan 30, 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, for ‘appeasing’ Muslims…
Race equality nightmare: Enoch Powell back in fashion
By Lester Holloway Who would have believed that 50 years after one of the most notorious race baiting rants ever given by a British…
Afghan peace challenge
By Muhammad Amir Rana Afghanistan remained a key diplomatic challenge for Pakistan in 2017, with various strategic, security, economic and internal political implications. The…
Mainstreaming jihad: why now?
By Pervez Hoodbhoy For three decades Pakistan’s military establishment has stoutly denied supporting violent religious groups irrespective of whether a group’s target lay…
Lubaina Himid: Turner Prize winner
By Operation Black Vote Like the African American actor, Morgan Freeman, success has come late to the brilliant artist Lubaina Himid. And we can…