Online now, though can't wait to get hold of the paperback! @vazirastani cambridge.org/core/books/how…

So excited about this!

faisal devji, Oxford History writes about our book 'Evacuee Cinema' by Salma Siddique. "A brilliantly original study of the links between India’s & Pakistan’s film industries that puts into question the role of partition, war & nationalism in the cultural history of South Asia.

Torino is happening ! ⚡️On 28th July, a dozen of us will come together for a day-long panel on Audiences in South Asian Media Studies. #ECSAS2023 ecsas2023turin.eu/panel/49-publi…

BioScope 14.1 is out! The one in which we read about the cinematic co-optation of politics in India. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @cinewallah @Debashree2017 @MediaAutomatiek

This Friday in Frankfurt!

A review that appeared earlier this year! Should visit Twitter more often.

Excited to make it to the shortlist! Grateful for all the support and good cheer from the publishing team Anwesha Qudsiya Ahmed ICAS:MP

Thrilled to share that two books from our ICAS:MP - Cambridge University Press - Academic series have been selected for the 2024 BASAS Book Prize shortlist!🎉 Congratulations to the authors of 'Properties of Rent' (Sushmita Pati) & 'Evacuee Cinema' (Salma Siddique) BASAS Anwesha Qudsiya Ahmed

Karnad's phenomenological account of Alkazi's Miss Julie (1960) - "What impressed me as much as the psychological cannibalism of the play was the way lights faded in and out of the stage".

Looking forward to this!

Grateful for this deeply engaged review by Manishita Dass Manishita Dass muse.jhu.edu/article/919202

*New Book Alert* On sustainable housing, architectural vision and the role of documentaries in India! Open-access on HASP. Reimagining Housing, Rethinking the Role of Architects by Nadja-Christina Schneider hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1…

Next week, Usha Iyer is in Berlin to share her new book project! Public lecture in IAAW, Invalidenstrasse . @ushai2020

Missing all the in-person fun at NECS Izmir this year! Remote presentation still on, coming up next in Panel A 8. "A suitable code : controversies and controls for streaming platforms in India"

Reimagining Housing, Rethinking the Role of Architects in India is open access on HASP. hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1…

Post summer Berlin has lots to offer. Such as Archival Assembly #3 "Resounding Archive: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image Pictures" arsenal-berlin.de/en/cinema/film…

Back with an exciting conversation with Salma Siddique for the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social). She asserts the need for studying the partition, the histories of the two nations, and its impact on Hindi Cinema in "Evacuee Cinema," published by Cambridge University Press. Tune in! newbooksnetwork.com/evacuee-cinema