The Palestinian-Austrian third culture kid is on a journey to forge her own sonic identity by merging Arabic and French whilst rapping about her dual-cultural experiences.
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Through styling evoking futurism and nods to heritage, Radhika Muthanna reminisces on childhood memories of Holi, explaining the history of the festival and the different Hindu traditions surrounding the spring-time celebration which take place in India.
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Maya Campbell visits first-time curator Destinie Paige at the launch of her new exhibition, Black Bxy Joy, which exercises a second-look at the Black experience and asks us to soak in the joy and tenderness of everyday Black life.
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In an exclusive for AZEEMA, the 23-year old emerging singer-songwriter takes us behind her new perspective on music-making, connecting Black feminism and Afrofuturism, with imagery infused in ancient African traditions.
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Documentary filmmaker Sonita Gale talks us through her reasons behind making her recent BAFTA-shortlisted film ‘Hostile’ and how her family’s migration from India to working-class white neighbourhoods in the North of England has inspired her wider creative and political work.
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In this special long read, AZEEMA meets Reem and Sereen, two creatives who are changing the way Palestine is perceived through its art, fashion and culture. They share their experiences of living under Israeli occupation, how Western hegemony has seeped into their work, and how they began to root their work back into Palestinian heritage.
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Naina Humayoon shares an introspective account of her parents’ sacrifices and successes as immigrants, and how she is reimagining the desire to ‘hustle’ hard through her own life, questioning how she values herself against the measures of a capital-driven Western environment.
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Sahar Esfandiari meets Sheyda, an inspiring Iranian small-business owner who took the tea rituals of her Persian heritage and grew it into a beautifully authentic brand, focusing on family, home, and exploring notions of displacement, whilst scrutinising the Western imperial tea industry.
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Raheaven, the London-based singer with Eritrean roots, brings both fierce and soft energy to R&B, fusion, and pop. Following the legacy of daring Eritrean artists, 26-year-old Raheaven centers an empowered and equally vulnerable experience throughout her previous EP '2Personal' and her latest track 'Touch It' featuring July 7.
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“Let’s start this with an apology to my mother.” In this tender exploration of the transition between girlhood and womanhood, Cairo-born photographer Alia Dessouki dictates the uniquely feminine evolution from the subject of innocence to the subject of the sexualised gaze through her childhood underwear.
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Shreea Kaul fuses together her western upbringing with her cultural heritage alongside REHMA as they musically navigate being a woman of South Asian heritage in today’s rocky dating landscape, and ask men to step up their game for women who are already at the top of theirs for their new single 'Ladke'.
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London based stylist, Medhini Kar worked with an all WANA+SA team on a very special story by photographer, Keerthana Kunnath, which spotlights a new take on women and the LGBTQ+ community in mainstream Indian cinema.
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Ravista talks us through her project Broken Englizh and how it started off as a personal enquiry into what it meant to ‘decolonise’ in one’s own life, which then grew into a collection of 26 first-person narratives.
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Photographer Oumayma and Les Filles du Soleil’s Taïz share a beautiful photo story celebrating their love for their motherland, Tunisia, and the culture of la Fripe where Taïz spends hours searching second-hand clothing rails.
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Studio Hilal invites us to their special Mehmooni: Introducing the artisanal design studio by creative sisters Zuhra and Moshtari Hilal, inspired by joint family memories and a love for illustration and textiles.
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In April 2021 Nike launched the FM Broadcast - a series of episodes celebrating Black futures in sport and culture. Hosted by Janaya Future Khan, the series centres practical discussions with the aim to educate and build the Black community.
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Having evolved from teen actress, the young singer-songwriter tells AZEEMA how she incorporates Asian inflections in her music and why vulnerability is key to her artistic voice.
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‘Symbioses’, the filmmaker’s latest short art film, addresses growing up mixed race and harks to the beauty of filming with natural light at sunrise: here, Sarah walks us through the behind-the-scenes creation of the film.
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We were blessed enough to sit down with AZADI.mp3, the British-Iranian rising star blowing up on our screens in Channel 4’s Lady Parts, to learn about her latest single NAZAR and how she pays homage to her roots.
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We catch up with Sicaria Sound to learn about what it’s like to work as a creative duo, what gets their creative juices flowing, and their label Cutcross, which is running through to 2022 and will see some new releases from the duo.
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