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Fann sat down with filmmaker Fawzia Mirza to ask them about their feature debut “The Queen of My Dreams” and the film’s upcoming U.S. debut at SXSW.
Ali Shayek is an actor and photographer. His role as Wali in the "Ramadan America" short “Playmates” is his first role.
Anwar Molani is a doctor by day and actor by night. He plays Dad, Soniya and Yasmeen’s family patriarch, in the “Ramadan America” short “In The Meantime.”
Leading up to and throughout Ramadan, we’ll feature interviews with the cast and crew of "Ramadan America" who brought the film to life.
Adam is a writer, theater-maker, and dramaturg who writes and develops plays that interrogate the intersections of queerness, immigration, and colonialism.
"To me it was always like, being Muslim is whatever you want it to be. If that's your background and it's no longer relevant to you or doesn't work for you, that's fine. Or if you're very queer and also very traditionally religious, of course that's fine. Or anything in between."
Qureshi spoke to Fann about her journey as a young writer, writing halal romances, and navigating tropes about Muslims in books, film and television.
While Omar considers his photography practice a hobby, his practice resembles a form of guerilla journalism. Fann recently sat down with him to talk about his practice and his recent experience in Palestine.
"I spend so much of my time basically trying to show the real harms that can happen to people through these supply chains and through the ad tech surveillance model and world that we live in because that's the business model of every company that we interact with right now."
Abdel Gawad spoke to Fann about her journey writing “Between Two Moons” and the ways in which she allows her characters to have complexity beyond stereotypes.
Ashley Franklin spoke to Fann about her journey as a writer, her love of princesses and how “Beauty and the Beast” and her grandmother inspired her love of words.
Autumn Allen is an educator and writer based in Boston. She spoke to Fann about her debut YA novel “All You Have to Do” and her journey as an author.