This is an image of my mother holding a picture of my brother, who is studying to be an actor at NYU Tisch. The image turned out to be a lot worse than expected (without a doubt due to my highly questionable photography skills), but the objective was to illustrate the unconventionality of my brother’s […]

Both the literary extract of Homefire and the non-literature text of Yumna Al-Arashi’s photographic works offer insights into modern contemporary religious and cultural practices. With the Homefire extract, Kamila Shamsie presents a more modern view of Muslim women. For example, Aneeka takes a dominant position in the extract, as shown when she writes, “smeared her […]