Zahra Airall

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Zahra Airall
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Zahra Airall posing with daughter after community event: Sports Day
Born
Antigua
Nationality Antigua and Barbuda
Occupation(s)Women's rights activist, filmmaker, playwright

Zahra Airall is a writer, women's rights activist, film maker. director, and playwright from Antigua and Barbuda. [1] She is a founding member of the organization Women of Antigua [2] and is one of their executives. [3] She is the director of the Sugar Apple Theatre in Antigua. [4] [5] She has written plays such as The Forgotten, which was performed in the Caribbean Secondary Schools Drama Festival by Antigua Girls' High School. [6] Airall is one of the contributors to She Sex, [7] a collaborative book with sections written by different Caribbean women. [8] She also writes short stories such as "The Looking Glass". [9] She wrote a specially commissioned monologue for Heather Doram. [10]

Awards

She has won multiple awards at the National Youth Awards (Antigua), [11] including the award for literary arts in 2016 for her involvement in many things over the years including works within the organization Women of Antigua (When a Woman Moans, Vagina Monologues) and August Rush (Expressions). [12] [13] Zahra has produced and scripted stage as well as film/TV content and steps on stage in numerous productions and in from of the camera (on Keeping it Real). [14]

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References

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  2. ↑ Louise., Kras, Sara (2008). Antigua and Barbuda (2nd ed.). Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark. p.  82. ISBN   9780761425700. OCLC   71800621.
  3. ↑ "TEDxAntigua - Meet the Team". tedxantiguabarbuda.com. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Playwrights and Screenwriters (the Antigua-Barbuda connection)". Wadadli Pen. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Tangled web returns to the stage". Caribbean Times News. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Gibbings, Wesley (6 November 2015). "An unforgettable plot". The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Obè, Paula; Carol N. Hosein (2013). She sex : prose & poetry - sex and the Caribbean woman. Trinidad and Tobago: Bamboo Talk Press. ISBN   1494213796. OCLC   872607310.
  8. ↑ Fraser, Mark (18 November 2013). "Sex, between the lines". Trinidad Express . Retrieved 16 March 2020. Also at: "EyeNews". www.ieyenews.com. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Zahra Airall - "The Looking Glass" - Short Story - (Antigua and Barbuda) - Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean (mv)". www.caribbeanhomophobias.org. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "HEATHER DORAM - THE ULTIMATE ARTIST OF ANTIGUA & BARBUDA". www.ba-theatre.com. Retrieved 2021-12-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ↑ "Zahra Airall wins National Youth Awards - Wadadli Pen". wadadlipen.wordpress.com. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  12. ↑ Hillhouse, Joanne C. (6 December 2010). "Youth awards, a hopeful night -- a night of inspiration". Antigua Observer. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "Zahra Airall wins National Youth Awards". Wadadli Pen. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  14. ↑ "Zahra Airall wins National Youth Awards". Wadadli Pen. Retrieved 2023-03-09.


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