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of King’s College School of Journalism cited a number of tweets from accounts
it said belonged to members of the football team.
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’Let’s look and see what the evidence is.”’
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your dead in a ditch. you are scum.”
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tweet included an offensive term for gays.
The
university attracted national attention last September over a student-led chant
that glorified sex with underage girls.
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December, the university endorsed a report from an independent council that
contained 20 recommendations on cultural changes to prevent sexual violence and
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GLOBAL
GIRL POWER- RISING
FROM
AFGHANISTAN TO CANADA- Amiri Hangama
Artist
dedicates work to Afghan birthplace
By
BEVERLEY WARE South Shore Bureau
LUNENBURG
— In the bay of an old fire hall in Lunenburg, a young woman mixes paint that
she will use to bring the voices of oppressed Afghan women to the world’s
attention.
If
her parents hadn’t fled her home in Kabul when the Taliban arrived in
Afghanistan in 1996, Hangama Amiri would be one of those women.
She
was just six years old then. Amiri remembers being tired, cold and hungry as
she walked — and sometimes rode horses when they crossed rivers — to reach the
safety of Pakistan.
“It
was winter. It was very hard," said Amiri, now 23, as she looks off into
the distance and sees herself as a little girl.
A
winding road brought her to Lunenburg.
And
a winding road lies ahead as Amiri works to find her own way in life by using
her art to seek justice for women in Afghanistan.
Amiri
is one of three NSCAD University graduates participating in the college’s
Lunenburg Community Studio Residency program. They work in the abandoned fire
truck bays and live in apartments above the bays on the second floor.
During
her year in Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Amiri will research the
identity of the community and immerse herself in its culture.
“I’m
very inspired to question things,” she said. “I am really amazed by it here.
I’m going to reflect on the people, the culture, the history that it has —
bring it into the painting.”
Amiri
did the same thing in New York last winter, “putting myself into the community
and into the streets and walking every day and seeing what interests me.” She
was late moving to Lunenburg this fall because she was invited to display her
work at a prestigious exhibition in England that had human rights as its theme.
Two
paintings were selected for the Passion for Freedom Festival exhibition that
was held at Unit 24 Gallery in London. One depicts a naked woman cowering under
a shower of stones raining down upon her, her bowed face obscured by her long
dark hair.
In
the other, fire obliterates the right eye of a young woman, but her left eye is
defiant as she holds up a burka in one hand and a book in the other.
Amiri
was interviewed by the BBC about her work. And Nick Cohen, a columnist for the
Spectator, wrote: “When you look at (the two paintings), you cannot help but
know that the artist understands the plight of women facing one of the most
murderously misogynistic forces on the planet.”
Amiri
has lived in a number of countries including Pakistan, Iran and Tajikistsan,
which is north of Afghanistan. Her family immigrated to Canada in 2005, but
Amiri said she needs to live in new places to find inspiration.
“My
art pushes me,” she said.
She
returned to Afghanistan in 2010 for the first time in 14 years and decided to
use women as the focus of her art.
She
started with a series of paintings based on six Afghan women who provided a
psychological and social portrait of life for women living under Taliban rule.
She
went into the community every day to meet women.
“I
went into neighbourhoods and heard their stories,” Amiri said. “That was very
challenging for me and the best way to connect with the women.
“I
put myself in the shoes of those women and I walked with them, so that’s how I
heard their stories. They’re tragic; they’re harsh realities. It was a very,
very extraordinary experience for me.”
It
challenged her as an artist and as a person. She said she experienced
flashbacks of her childhood when she looked upon the playground where she
played with her friends and the school she attended.
Her
paintings confront issues like arranged marriages, education for girls and the
stoning of women accused of adultery.
Though
the Afghan women were filled with questions about what Amiri wears, eats and
where she studies, Amiri assured them that she, too, struggles, and that
freedom does not automatically make a person happy.
“I’m
an artist; I still struggle,” she said. “I came to this risky place is to find
my own self. I’m still working at it.”
Amiri
said her goal is to draw the attention of the international community to the
plight of women in Afghanistan.
“I’m
bringing those voices, those women who can’t express themselves fearlessly in
Afghanistan, so I’m bringing those harsh realities into the international
context, bringing awareness.”
She
also wants to raise awareness about the need for individual rights.
“Always
know your own rights. Every human being has a freedom inside them, so express
that fearlessly with your voice, unite with other women and your community and
fight against those regimes.
“And
also, never give up. Every day you should have to take an action, and that’s
how you can make change, because I believe once you’ve tasted freedom, no one
can take it from you.”
Amiri
said she sees her time in Lunenburg as an opportunity to grow. She said the
community supports the arts and is a place filled with inspiration.
While
here, Amiri is working with the Second Story Women’s Centre and a local art
gallery. She will hold workshops and exhibit her work.
As
natural lights fills the former fire truck bay and bounces off the white church
across the street, Amiri said she knows she will find inspiration here as she
takes the next steps along her path.
(bware@herald.ca)
PHOTO
Amira
Hangama fled Afghanistan with her family
when the Taliban seized power in 1996. The NSCAD graduate is in an artistic
residency at the college’s Lunenburg studio. (BEVERLEY WARE / South Shore
Bureau)
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Censored
works shown for the first time in the City of Freedom -- London.
Passion
for Freedom asked artists to respond to these three questions:
1.
What is freedom?
2.
How easy is it to lose it?
3.
How hard is it to get it back?
The
"Passion For Freedom" Exhibition this year consisted of 40 artists
from 20 countries from all over the world. They came from Canada, USA, Poland,
the Netherlands, Afghanistan, Iran and from all over the UK. Some of the works
have never been shown before due to art galleries fear of consequences. 5 of
the artists exhibited their work under changed names. Although anonymous they
attended the private view but asked photos or videos in which they appear not
to be published.
Freedom
is like air -- you don't see it, you don't appreciate it until you start to
lose it.
facebook.com/passionforfreedom
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GLOBAL GIRL POWER RISING UP....
Confronting
the male gaze
November
16, 2012
.
Opening
night of Passion for Freedom at Unit 24 Gallery in London, England. Hangama
Amiri's painting Raining Stones can be seen next to the window.
From
the glamour of London, England to the tranquility of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia,
Hangama Amiri is excited about where her art is taking her.
Just
graduated from NSCAD University in the spring, the young Canadian uses her art
to speak for the women of her native land, Afghanistan.
“I
see myself as creating activist artwork to challenge and to change and to bring
hope for the women of Afghanistan,” says Hangama, 23, just back from the U.K.
and en route to Lunenburg, where she is one of three NSCAD grads with the
NSCAD-Lunenburg Community Studio Residency Program.
Hangama
was in London to attend the opening of the Passion for Freedom Festival
exhibition at Unit 24 Gallery, next to the Tate Modern. Two of her paintings
from the Wind-up Dolls Series, which debuted at the Anna Leonowens Gallery in
the fall of 2011, were accepted to the prestigious exhibition.
“When
I applied, I got a reply from the curator of the show that same day,” says
Hangama. “I was quite surprised.”
Born
in Kabul, she and her family fled Afghanistan with the arrival of the Taliban
in 1996, making their way to Canada in 2005. The Wind-Up Dolls series was
inspired by a 2010 trip back to the city of her childhood and the women she met
there. The painting Raining Stones shows a naked woman, her head bowed and her
long hair obscuring her face, in the centre of the canvas, as rocks drop down
around her. The painting refers to the fact women accused of committing
adultery are still subject to being publicly stoned in Afghanistan’s tribal villages.
The
second painting shows a young woman with fire obliterating her eye, holding a
book in one hand and a Burqa in the other.
Despite the flames—the intimidation, the danger—her gaze is fierce and
defiant.
Hangama
Amiri's second painting at the exhibition shows a young girl with fire over her
eye.
“When
the Taliban lost control of the country in 2001 there was great hope for girls,
that they would be able to go to school. But it isn’t safe. So many girls have
had acid thrown into their face.”
Her
work got a lot of attention in London; she was interviewed on the BBC and a
columnist in The Spectator singled out her two paintings for special mention in
his review. “When you look at them, you cannot help but know that the artist
understands the plight of women facing one of the most murderously misogynistic
forces on the planet,” writes Nick Cohen, “and perhaps feel the need to offer
her solidarity overwhelming all other emotions.”
Hangama
was back in Kabul recently, in the company of her sister Fazila, a NSCAD film
grad who was scouting locations for her first feature. The sisters collaborated
on Domes of Secret Desires, a series of six videos. In each sequence, a woman
(Hangama) wearing a blue Burqa would perform such taboo activites as putting on
lipstick, walking in high heels and smoking hookah. “These performances are the
conceptual portraits for women who have been target of moral behavioral codes
imposed on them by men in religiously standardized societies,” explains
Hangama.
As
well, Hangama started work on a series of paintings and projections which will
explore the male gaze in Afghanistan. She plans to build on them once back in
the Lunenburg studio.
“In
today’s Afghan society, Afghan women live in a sexually objectifying
environment; they are harassed and called names and stared at by men,” says
Hangama. “If you walk outside (in Kabul) covered from head to toe, you are
still harassed … there is no way of escaping the male gaze.”
Video still from The Male Gaze project in
development.
PRESS
RELEASE- PASSION 4 FREEDOM
Posted
In press 2012
Censored
works shown
for the first time in the
City of Freedom – London.
IV
Passion for Freedom London Festival 2012 presents artists who dare to take
action next door to Tate Modern
For
the fourth time the annual festival will take place at the Unit24 Gallery on
London’s South Bank. Artists from 30 countries around the world have entered
their work into the competition this year. During the festival the works of 36
artists will be shown from countries spanning the globe including Cuba,
Pakistan, China, Poland, Afghanistan, UK, Italy and USA.
“Artists
using mediums such as video, installation, painting and sculpture openly debate
issues that are usually swept under the carpet.’ It is important to remember
that our society takes freedom for granted. Being interested in ‘the next big
thing’ we forget that what we have was fought for and has to be protected.” –
says Agnieszka Kolek, KM Curator.
The
exhibition’s message comes across strongly with Sarah Maple’s work “Inaction is
a weapon of mass destruction”. Invited to be a Special Guest Artist, Sarah
decided to confront the viewer with their own reflection. ‘It is like everyone
can be an activist in their everyday lives through small acts.’ – says Sarah.
“Real
change comes about by challenging and dissenting not by appeasement and
silence. It comes about by breaking taboos and pushing aside that which is
deemed sacred and art is such an important way of doing this. As Ai Wei Wei
says, “if we don’t push, nothing changes.” says Maryam Namazie, One Law for
All’s Spokesperson.
‘We
should have no illusion that Twitter or Facebook will free us.’ –says Marianna
Fox, Assistant Curator. ‘On Friday, 9 November there is a special screening of
“Ai Weiwei Never Sorry” documentary by Alison Klayman. It shows how even in a
global village connected through social media Chinese authorities could
persecute the artist by beating him up in secret detention, bulldozing his
newly built studio and limiting his access to the outside world. Artists, such
as Ai Weiwei pay the highest price for making meaningful art. ’ – comments
Marianna.
The
Festival does not only promote art dissidents from aboard. ‘There is an eminent
danger that our society is censoring itself without obvious totalitarian states
imposing laws upon us.’ – says Agnieszka.
‘Many
galleries were afraid to exhibit my installation “PO. Box to Allah” in their
spaces. I have never given up hope to make a statement on freedom of religion
and freedom of speech wherever on earth people will be.’ – says Johan van der
Dong, artist from Holland.
This
year’s festival has got a strong video presence. To highlight a few Liz
Gascoigne’s ‘No Spring without Women’ is hypnotic while Paul Harrison’s work
“The Sea of Parity”, who graduated only in 2011, leaves the viewer with the
strongest image possible.
One
Law for All’s Passion for Freedom is non partisan and voluntary organization
gathering professionals working in arts and media. The first edition of
non-profit London Festival took place in 2009. The annual celebration of
Freedom takes place in a spacious, contemporary gallery next to Tate Modern.
Shortlisted
artists: Amiri Hangama, Osailys Milian Avila, Maureen Bachaus, Eskild Beck,
Azadeh Behroozi, Eliza Bennett, Gary Betts, John Bonafede, Elisabeth Sarianne
Breuker, Victoria Burgher, An Deceuninck, Fiona Dent, Johan van der Dong, Alice
Eikelpoth, Ferri Farahmandi, Luciana Franzolin, Liz Gascoigne, Helen Gorrill,
Georges Hala, Paul Harrison, Haleh Jamali & Monica de Ioanni, Joy Johnson,
Matthew Lloyd, Peter Leigh, Michael Massaro, Wendy Nelson, Renato Niemis, Pacorrosa
Cuevas Rosa, Abdullah Qureshi, Ricky Romain, Sausan Saulat, Schgor Francesca,
Maria Strzelecka, Stephanie Taugner, Al Teleki, Matylda Tracewska
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GLOBAL
GIRL POWER
Sisters
from Kabul
.
Born
in Kabul, Fazila and Amira Hangama and
their family fled Afghanistan in 1996 with the arrival of the Taliban, going
first to Pakistan, then to Iran, then to Tajikistan, and finally arriving in
Canada in 2005.
Both
sisters are now studying at NSCAD University. But while they’ve adjusted to
life in Canada, they can’t forget the troubled homeland they left behind.
As
an artist, Fazila Amiri’s films look at the consequences for human rights in
Afghanistan and Canada's role there. She is currently developing her first
feature film to be shot in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Born in Kabul in 1988, Fazila is finishing her
undergraduate degree, majoring in film, at NSCAD University. Her first short
film Paaizeb was screened at the 41st Montreal World Film Festival, and Gerreh,
her thesis film, just screened at the Atlantic Film Festival.
Gerreh—a
Persian word for “tying the knot"—will also show next month at the Autumn
Human Rights Film Festival in Kabul and
at Communications Nova Scotia’s Diversity Film Festival at the Art Gallery of
Nova Scotia.
The
16-minute film tells the fictional story of an immigrant Afghan bride who
experiments with democracy in her new multicultural Canadian land. Shot last
winter with a nonprofessional cast, the film was funded by Film Nova Scotia.
“Through
cinema, I can express my experiences, the things I have seen,” says Fazila, 23.
“By making films, it’s helped me to understand what my voice is as an artist.
I’m so grateful for the support and understanding of my professors.”
Filmmaker
Fazila Amiri; Still from her film, Gerreh (left)
Fazila’s
younger sister Hangama, a painter, is also bringing her art before an
audience: the exhibition The Wind-Up
Dolls opened at the Anna Leonowens Gallery on Monday, Sept. 27. It consists of
a series of portraits of six Afghan women, whom she met on a visit to her
native Kabul last year.
“When
you’ve been raised in four countries, you get a bit of conflicted identity,”
explains Hangama, 22. “And I find myself thinking back to where I came from and
what I would be like if I stayed. These women who I met have lived under
oppression and in a male-dominated society ...
I feel as an artist I can bring their stories alive.”
Presented
with the Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteerism Medal at the President’s
Convocation on Wednesday, Sept. 21, Hangama says she expresses her appreciation
for her life in Canada by volunteering. But like her sister, she is drawn again
and again to where she comes from.
“Canada
gives me the luxury to focus on my education and to find my voice as an
artist,” she says. “I will always be so grateful for that.”
Two
paintings from the series
“The
Wind-Up Dolls” by AMIRI HAGAMA portrays the contemporary Afghan women whom the
artist
met
upon visit to her home city, Kabul in 2010. ‘These paintings give a social
dimension portraying
the
innermost thought and feelings of contemporary Afghan women.’ – says Hangama
Amiri
(Canada).
Hangama
Amiri
The
Wind-Up Dolls of Kabul | 2011
The
Wind-Up Dolls, is a painting series about Afghan women whom the artist met on a
visit back to her homeland Kabul, Afghanistan in the year of 2010. The research
painting project portrays the innermost thoughts, social dimensions, and
psychological insights of six Afghan women in contemporary Afghan society.
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Canada's
Prime Minister nominates Malala for Nobel Prize
Tarek
Fatah
by
Tarek Fatah
Petition
Organizer
Prime
Minister Stephen Harper of Canada nominates Pakistan's Malala Yusufzai for the
2013 Nobel Peace Prize
G.
Stroumboulopoulos
A
petition to nominate Malala Yousafzai for the Nobel Peace Prize has a new
signature. @pmharper signs on.
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IT'S ALL ABOUT AFGHANISTAN
GLOBAL
GIRL POWER RISING UP....
MALALA-
what United Nations country wld allow murder contract by Muslims on a Muslim
child- legally????-Nobel Peace Prize instead eh?
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NEDAS AND MALALAS WILL GO TO SCHOOL- yes they will ...yes they will - free at
last- free at last... Malala 4 Nobel Peace Prize folks...
UK
Islamists issue fatwa against Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban
The
group, Shariah4 -Pakistan, plans to meet in Islamabad to issue a religious
decree against Malala Yousufzai, accusing her of supporting 'occupying' U.S. forces
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British
Islamists to issue fatwa against Malala Yousufzai
4
days ago – “There will be a fatwa issued regarding Malala Yousufzai taking into
account ... hijab and jihad,” said Abu Baraa, a senior member of
Shariah4Pakistan. ... is being used as a propaganda tool by the enemies of
Muslims to say: 'Look, ... campaigning that had pitted the young girl against
one of Pakistan's most ...
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AND
GLOBAL GIRL POWER- we love r Afghan
girls- they will go to school - Afghan daddies love their little girls too.
Two
paintings from the series
“The
Wind-Up Dolls” by AMIRI HAGAMA portrays the contemporary Afghan women whom the
artist
met
upon visit to her home city, Kabul in 2010. ‘These paintings give a social
dimension portraying
the
innermost thought and feelings of contemporary Afghan women.’ – says Hangama
Amiri
(Canada).
Hangama
Amiri
The
Wind-Up Dolls of Kabul | 2011
The
Wind-Up Dolls, is a painting series about Afghan women whom the artist met on a
visit back to her homeland Kabul, Afghanistan in the year of 2010. The research
painting project portrays the innermost thoughts, social dimensions, and
psychological insights of six Afghan women in contemporary Afghan society.
Raining
Stones- Brilliant Artist Depiction- of stoning- Hagama
GLOBAL
GIRL POWER- F**K The War.... Malalas and Nedas R going to school
WEAPON
OF MASS DESTRUCTION- A Little Girl with a Book called "Education"
Coward
Muslim Jihadists- Global Girl Power is rising- r nedas and malalas r going to
school -hell yeah!
So
cool- Cartoon- Global Girl Power- WHAT TERRIFIES RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS THE MOST-
LIKE THE TALIBAN R NOT AMERICAN TANKS, BOMBS R BULLETS- ... It's a girl with a
book
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Renovation
of Jumah Mosque in Herat
Written
by wadsam | November 17, 2012 | 0
Afghan
traders and industrialists have joined hands together to renovate the Friday
Mosque of Herat also known as Jumah Mosque. According to Herat’s prayer leader
and preacher, the mosque needed a new roof and glasswork. The deputy chief
of...
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Afghan
piano students win 3rd prize in an international competition
Written
by wadsam | November 11, 2012 | 0
Two
students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) finished third
in their age category at an international piano competition held in Frankfurt,
Germany earlier this week. This is the first time that any Afghan piano
student...
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Eid-ul-Adha
Written
by wadsam | October 25, 2012 | 0
Eid-ul-Adha
(‘festival of Sacrifice’), also known as the Greater Eid, is the second most
important festival in the Muslim calendar. The festival remembers the prophet
Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son when God ordered...
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Hope
for peace- poem by young Afghan poetess Sajia Alaha Ahrar
Posted
by wadsam | October 14, 2012 | 0
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AND...
FREEDOM- THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON TO BE ALIVE...
The
real heroes of Afghanistan- once again the NO COUNTRY-NO LAWS-NO RULES MUSLIM
BABY KILLING JIHAADITS- refuse to fight
with honour- they choose to hide behind landmines, their mother's skirts and
little Muslim children...
Figures show Afghan Army losing four soldiers
a day Execution of convicted prisoners provokes
PESHAWAR:
The Afghan defence ministry conceded that 830 Afghan National Army (ANA)
soldiers were killed in the fighting against Taliban and other armed groups in
the past seven months compared to 568 in the corresponding period last year.
Keeping
in view the figures provided by the Afghan defence ministry, the Afghan
National Army is losing four soldiers a day.
This
meant over 31 percent increase in the casualty rate compared to last year. This
figure doesn’t include the casualties suffered by the Afghan National Police,
the border security force, the pro-government village defence militias also
known as “arbaki.”
The
losses suffered by the Nato forces are also not included in this figure.
The
Afghan defence ministry spokesman, General Zahir Azimi said most of the
soldiers were killed in roadside bombings and suicide attacks as the armed
opponents could not fight the ANA troops face-to-face.
He said the number of
Afghan security forces would rise to 350,000 in 2014 when the Nato forces would
withdraw from Afghanistan and this strength would be enough to keep the Taliban
in check with help from the Afghan government’s foreign partners.
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