Spotlight Entrepreneur: Aamina Jehangir

Spotlight Entrepreneur: Aamina Jehangir Ghausia Rashid Salam sits down with a young and enterprising baker; part philanthropist, part artist, Aamina Jehangir seems to have it all figured out. Aamina Jehangir tried her hand at baking for the first time as an unassuming 4 year-old. As she laughingly explains,...

Spotlight Artist – Emaan Mahmud

Have you always known you wanted to be a visual artist? Not really. Uptil O Levels I wanted to get into finance and then when I noticed my brain shutting down while studying accounting I thought maybe a career in Finance may not be the best option for me. When the time came to decide the major for college ,...

Spotlight Artist – Ankolie

Your work would be right at home in an Enid Blyton book. Who were your favourite authors growing up? First of all, thanks! I’m very flattered to be associated with Enid Blyton! When I was little, I started reading my mother’s books pretty quickly. At age 11, I was reading Bukowski (without understanding...

Spotlight Artist – Amira Farooq

What’s a day in your life like? A day in my life is never the same. I just live and when inspiration comes I paint. Your work in five words. Colorful, blunt, thought provoking, conceptual, unique. You’ve dabbled in many different things over the years. When did you decide you were going to be a painter...

Spotlight Artist – Sonja Dimovska

 Have you always known you wanted to be a graphic artist? Graphic art is a medium I most frequently use to express myself. I have a feeling as if I have been doing that for my whole life. I have always found graphics as something very close to me, since my early beginnings. An unpremeditated choice of mine...

Spotlight Poet – Karen Alkalay-Gut

 Behind the Words: An Interview with Karen Alkalay-Gut by Omri J. Luzon Karen Alkalay-Gut is a professor at Tel-Aviv University, the Chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English, Vice Chair of the Federation of Writers Unions in Israel and the board member of the Yiddish Writers Association. She is...