Autor/-in: Saskia Warren

Dr Saskia Warren is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at University of Manchester. From 2017-2020 she held an Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellowship, Geographies of Muslim Women and the UK Cultural and Creative Economy. She recently co-curated the contemporary art and textile exhibition Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today, The Whitworth (2019-20). Her research interests are inequalities, cultural production and cultural consumption, religion, gender and ethnicity, curating and co-production. Her inter-disciplinary work has been published in leading international peer reviewed journals including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Cultural Geographies and the European Journal of Culture Studies. She is co-editor with Phil Jones of the collection, Creative Economies, Creative Communities: Rethinking Place, Policy, and Practice (Routledge, London).

Qaisra Shahraz is a prize-winning and critically-acclaimed novelist, scriptwriter, peace and gender activist.