Spotlight Artist – Amira Farooq

What’s a day in your life like? A day in my life is never the same. I just live and when inspiration comes I paint. Your work in five words. Colorful, blunt, thought provoking, conceptual, unique. You’ve dabbled in many different things over the years. When did you decide you were going to be a painter...

Spotlight Artist – Sonja Dimovska

 Have you always known you wanted to be a graphic artist? Graphic art is a medium I most frequently use to express myself. I have a feeling as if I have been doing that for my whole life. I have always found graphics as something very close to me, since my early beginnings. An unpremeditated choice of mine...

Spotlight Poet – Karen Alkalay-Gut

 Behind the Words: An Interview with Karen Alkalay-Gut by Omri J. Luzon Karen Alkalay-Gut is a professor at Tel-Aviv University, the Chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English, Vice Chair of the Federation of Writers Unions in Israel and the board member of the Yiddish Writers Association. She is...

The Critics in Film: Jane Eyre

Reviewed by Emma K. Gold Not a plain Jane.             Cast & Credits Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga. With Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre), Michael Fassbender (Edward Rochester), Jamie Bell (St. John Rivers), and Judi Dench (Mrs Fairfax). Written by: Moira Buffini   Released by Focus...

Spotlight Illustrator: Abigail Larson

Spotlight Illustrator: Abigail Larson In this short interview, Ms Larson—illustrator extraordinaire—talks about her craft, how she got started and what inspires her (among other things) with Creative Director Moeed Tarique. Abigail Larson once had early ambitions of becoming an opera singer and joining...

Spotlight Artist: Maria Khan

Maria Khan is a 2009 graduate from the National College of Arts, Lahore’s College of Art & Design. Apart from pursuing painting as her major, she minored in printmaking, sculpture and photography. She earned herself a distinction in 2009 and won the ‘Best Painting Award 2010’ conferred by the...