20 films everyone should watch before they’re 20
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Prevent film: a conversation
By Lee Pinkerton Journalism students from the University of East London (UEL) have collaborated with charity Samosa Media to produce a ground-breaking new…
Stepney Green Sixth Form London, Question Time Film 2019
This Question Time was developed through workshops run by Samosa Media with students, then produced and filmed by the students themselves on 11th…
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…
