In the first person - In your own words
We trawl the news media so you don’t have to
Media you make - stories you tell
True insight into the real direction of our collective purposes
Musings from the Worldtown cast.
We will regularly be presenting a featured artist, writer or performer who is exploring questions of identity and personal narrative through their medium of expression.
The map is your representation. No rigid lines, no defined routes. You direct it on your own account.
A new quarterly publication hopes to reclaim critical debate about Muslims, latching onto the spaces out of Arab uprisings in the Middle East. Critical Muslim is a response to superficial journalistic tendencies that disservice the very idea of “critical scholarship” in Islamic tradition. A tradition - as Critical Muslim co-editor, Ziauddun Sardar, points out - that is too easily forgotten, most easily by Muslims actively consuming the very media that conveniently disengages them from critically thinking about the world in which they live.
In the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence case verdict, London-based poet Dean Atta saw something that made him very angry. It was not so much an image than an idea that sparked him to pen …
With the absence of formal statehood for Somaliland, the imagination of a state might be easily lost-and yet, hope reigns. It is true that recognition is important for the majority of Somalilanders in the Diaspora. What is forgotten is that without the will and determination to build communities or a sense of belonging, recognition and its benefits are merely peripheral to the cause. Instead, the heart of the matter is precisely that-cultivating a place and home for a people too often characterized as stateless, fragile, mired in chaos and incapable of coming together for the greater good.
In the aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence case verdict, London-based poet Dean Atta saw something that made him very angry. It was not so much an image than an idea that sparked him to pen …
Counterpoint Exhibitions: Call For Artists
The exhibition explores contemporary themes of displacement, exile, migration and related concepts via performance and visual arts. PLATFORMA is seeking artists with works which investigate these concepts. The exhibit is part …
