Mir Suhail – Speaking Satire to Power: A View from Kashmir

March 4 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Virtual Event

Mir Suhail is a political cartoonist and illustrator based in New York City. He is from Indian-occupied Kashmir, where he grew up and started his political cartooning career drawing for a local daily at the age of fourteen. He has since drawn cartoons for leading print and digital news media, magazines, publishers and non-profit organizations in the Indian sub-continent and internationally including for CNN-News 18, The Caravan Magazine, Amnesty International, Action Aid and Save the Children. His work has been profiled in the Raiot, BBC and Al-Jazeera English amongst other publications.

Deepti Misri is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research currently focuses on literary and visual representations of militarized occupation in Indian-administered Kashmir, and she has published frequently on Mir Suhail’s art in that vein. She is also a member of the feminist scholarly collective known as the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective.

Find Mir’s work at: https://mirsuhailportfolio.wordpress.com/

Part of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.

 

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Date: March 4, 2021
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Virtual Event

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Center for South Asian Studies

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