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The 8th of March is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. Until about two years ago I would have thought little about marking the day or taking time out to reflect on how gender impacts every facet of life. Being a woman who is privileged to have a loving family, education, food, safety and […]
Landing, for the first time on my own, in the city of Beirut, I could not feel further from ‘aloneness’. With the rays of the bright sun flooding the plane and the echo of excitement disseminating through the entire carriage, I was happy to be home. Asking an official at the airport for the nearest […]
Graffiti often invokes images of vandalism and violence. Despite wide popularisation of this art by the likes of Banksy, negative connotations surrounding graffiti still survive but they did not deter Mohammed Ali, a Muslim born and raised in Birmingham. Mohammed says he was inspired by the 80s New York graffiti movement and whilst studying multimedia […]