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Anwar Akhtar, Director Anwar was born in Manchester, to Pakistani parents and spent his junior years working on his dad’s market stalls selling jumpers and T shirts. He was Chief Executive of the Cultural Industries Development Agency (CIDA) and spent three years as Director of Rich Mix, an arts and cultural centre in East London and ten years working as a DJ and Club promoter in Sheffield. He graduated in social studies at Sheffield Hallam University and was a fellow on the Clore leadership programme in 2004. He came up with the idea of The Samosa with John Pandit at a party in Hoxton.
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Chaminda Jayanetti, Commissioning Editor is a freelance journalist who has worked in print and broadcast variously covering higher education, finance and Muslim affairs. He has worked for Emap and has written for the Guardian and Times Higher Education Supplement. |
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John Newbigin, patron John works as a freelance journalist, and a strategic consultant for the cultural industries. Previously Channel 4 Television Head of Corporate Relations and special adviser to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Chris Smith MP. Previous jobs included working as an executive for David Puttnam’s film company Enigma (1992-97), Policy Adviser to Neil Kinnock, then leader of the Labour party (1986-92), journalist and youth worker. |
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John Pandit, contributor AKA Pandit G. Founder member, DJ and beats controller of Asian Dub Foundation and the Asian Dub Foundation sound system. John is also a Trustee of The Rich Mix Cultural Foundation. |
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Jane Barnwell, contributor Jane teaches Film & Broadcast Production at London Metropolitan University, and is also a designer for film, television and theatre. In 2004 she published her first book, Production Design: Architects of the screen by Wallflower Press. Since 2006, she has published many articles and interviews for the magazine The Scenographer International Journal of Production & Costume Design. Jane has recently completed the book The Fundamentals of Film Making by AVA publishing. |
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Qalandar Bux Memon, contributor was born in North London to Pakistani parents. He spent most of his summers back in his ancestral village in Sindh, Pakistan. He holds a BA in Economics, Politics and History, an MA in Philosophy and an MSc in Comparative Politics. He has studied at the London School of Economics, Birkbeck University and McGill University. While studying he worked in the British Film industry and holds a diploma in Cinematography. Along with the now dissolved Postanalytic group he founded Naked Punch magazine. The magazine is run by a collective of artists, philosophers and poets and takes an interdisciplinary approach to age-old questions of philosophical, social, artistic and political life. Since 2006 he has been the editor of Naked Punch and since 2007 of Bol magazine in Pakistan. To partake in the lawyers' movement he relocated to Lahore, Pakistan in 2007. He lectures in Political Philosophy at Forman Christian College, Lahore, and was active in the lawyers' movement. He works for the Labour Party of Pakistan. |
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Laurie Penny is a journalist, blogger and feminist activist from London. She is staff writer at One In Four magazine, blogs for LabourList and at Liberal Conspiracy, and was a parliamentary researcher for the Labour party. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Times and the Independent on Sunday as well as several national magazines. Likes include: boots, books, comics, tea, socialist feminism, goth clubs. Dislikes include: bigotry, intolerance, green peppers and Cheryl Cole. |
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Masood Hasan has a Masters in English Literature and a 40 year career spanning media, communications and writing. He heads one of Pakistan’s top flight ad agencies Publicis. He has published a book of his columns and is also the host of a weekly jazz show Allthatjazz on a nationwide fm radio network. He is married to Dr. Ira Hasan, one of Pakistan’s celebrated Shakespearean scholars who currently heads the Language & Literature Department at BNU, Pakistan’s first liberal arts university. The Hasans live in Lahore and have two sons. |
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Saeed Khalique, patron Saeed is the Managing Director of Alma, a London based, interiors and design house. He is an active philanthropist, supporting welfare and education projects both in Pakistan and the UK. |
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