Mara Ahmed’s Unwavering Lens by E. C. Salibian
Ahmed today is making a new documentary with the working title “The Injured Body.” The film was inspired by the book “Citizen: An American Lyric,” by the poet Claudia Rankine....
Reilly Hirst on A Thin Wall
Poet, philosopher and Rochester-based activist Reilly Hirst pens a review of A Thin Wall: A Thin Wall is a lush and important documentary. Deftly and tenderly handled, it is a...
Indian, Pakistani: Why Two Women Felt Compelled To Make This Partition Documentary
Many people have asked me over the years how Surbhi Dewan and I came together to make A Thin Wall, an intensely personal film about the partition of India. Here...
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Connections with Evan Dawson: Filmmaker Mara Ahmed on Borders and Nationalism
A poll conducted in the aftermath of the Charlottesville rallies found that while few Americans will outwardly express support for white nationalism or racially-charged ideas, more than 30 percent say...
Rashna Batliwala Singh on A Thin Wall
Beautiful commentary and analysis by Rashna Batliwala Singh, Visiting Professor, Department of English, who saw A Thin Wall at Colorado College on Jan 30, 2018: Most films about the partitioning...
Kathryn Myers on A Thin Wall
On Nov 8, 2017 A Thin Wall was screened at the Human Rights Film Festival at UConn. The post-screening Q&A with director Mara Ahmed was conducted by Professor Kathryn Myers,...
Uzma Aslam Khan on A Thin Wall
Pakistani novelist Uzma Aslam Khan, whose work is included in A Thin Wall, introduced the film in these words at the screening at Hampshire College in April 2017: I’m thrilled...
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...