VIDEO: The Edges that Blur by Mara Ahmed for TEDxRochester
Born in Pakistan, raised in Belguim, and now living in New York has provided Mara Ahmed with a unique worldview. As a desendent of those impacted by the creation of...
Comfort food for the diaspora | The McGill Daily
Sarah Shahid: Spaces Between was followed by Mara Ahmed’s documentary, A Thin Wall, on the 1947 Partition of India, which separated the British-occupied land into India and Pakistan. Shot on both...
Partition Stories: The time my grandmother carried Ghalib across the border
Surbhi Dewan: My engagement with lost homes and homelands began the day I was born into a family of survivors of the Partition (of the British Empire that led to...
VIDEO: Mara Ahmed on The Profile
Interview with director of “A Thin Wall” at TVapex, after screening in London, April 9, 2016.
On “The Muslims I Know” from George Payne
George Payne: There is something so refreshing and compelling about telling people’s stories when they have your complete attention, respect and cooperation. Because her interviewees trust her completely, Mara Ahmed’s...
A Thin Wall: Nationalism and the Partition of India by Mara Ahmed
Mara Ahmed: The documentary film “A Thin Wall,” a personal take on the partition of India shot on both sides of the Pakistan-India border, took me 7 years to complete....
VIDEO: A Thin Wall on RCTV
"On this episode of Conversations with Creatives, filmmaker Mara Ahmed discusses the film, A Thin Wall, that she and Surbhi Dewan made about the 1947 partition between India and Pakistan....
Mara Ahmed, the Filmmaker Behind A THIN WALL by Carol White Llewellyn, RCTV
I had the wonderful fortune to screen the film, A Thin Wall, while on the programming committee for the High Falls Film Festival. It was a stunningly beautiful documentary about...
VIDEO: Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on Voice of America’s Cafe DC
“Meet Mara Ahmed, a filmmaker born in Lahore, now living in the US. She discusses her film “A Thin Wall” about the Partition of India and the personal impact on...
Tasveer’s 10th film festival brings home South Asian geopolitics by Nabeeha Chaudhary, The Seattle Globalist
As we witness the current tragic Syrian refugee crisis, we are reminded of how significant physical space and man-made borders become in moments of crisis and how important it is...