Sabah will be presenting a talk on political cinema at the University of Brighton conference "Radical 60s: Aesthetics, Politics and Histories of Solidarity" in Brighton, UK, from June 27-29.

LONDON, UK

Sabah Haider will be giving the next Digital Anthropology brown bag lunch seminar at the Centre for Digital Anthropology, University College London  on Monday March 18, 2019 from 12-1:30pm in Room 130 (14 Taviton Street). Her talk is entitled “How Can Digital...

The Arab world is celebrating Malek's Oscar win because he is Arab, but there's more to celebrate about Rami Malek winning Best Actor than Egyptian heritage ... lets not forget the role he won the Oscar playing: a gay man of Indian origin who died of Aids. Lets hope th...

The Legend of Ruby Pasha screened at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Glasgow on Saturday November 17th, as the opening short film for the Gala Screening of Gaya Jiji's My Favourite Fabric (Official Selection Cannes, 2018), and on Sunday November 18th.  Sabah H...

On November 19, 2018,

Sabah Haider will be giving the seminar "Competing Political Imaginaries and the Contested Image: How can we understand the past?" at the University of Glasgow. The seminary will take place on Monday Nov 19, 2018 at 3:30pm to 5pm. There will be a o...

La Colonie, Paris, 18-21 October, 2018

PARIS – At the second edition of the Salons du Livre d'art des Afriques / African Literature and Arts festival, being held at La Colonie, Paris from October 18–21, 2018, Sabah Haider will speak on the panel "Acts of Publication in...

The Legend of Ruby Pasha will screen at FIWOM, the 12th Film Festival for Women's Rights in Seoul, Korea this month, from September 12-16, 2018, in the Zoom Out section.

In this week's Le Monde Diplomatique, English edition, Sabah Haider interviews Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan about her first feature, The Day I Lost My Shadow, which premieres in Venice in a couple of weeks. 

"Syria’s refugee crisis, stemming from the war that began i...

The Legend of Ruby Pasha will be screening at London's "Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival", on Friday, June 29, 2018, as part of the Aperture Shorts Program 1: Women in the Frame. 

The screening will be held at the Horse Hospital arts and cultural space. Ticke...

Photo: Saraste 

A current aspect of my research is exploring the friction between multiple perceptions of images past and present. "The Contested Image and Competing Perceptions: How can we read an image?" will be shared in the session: “Moving Towards Home: The Feminis...