Azfar Shafi

Sep 6, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | A. Bustos |Hamza Yusuf |Azfar Shafi |Emily Coatman

FOA.001 is a photography book that emerged out of a video installation by British photographer Jacob Lazarus, who has been documenting settler violence in the occupied West Bank for the past two years as a member of the Jordan Valley Activists. This group of international volunteers make themselves present virtually every day in the Jordan Valley at the request of Palestinian herders, who face continual threats of displacement and physical violence from Jewish settlers.

Sep 4, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Hamza Yusuf |Azfar Shafi |Emily Coatman |Asha Lyons Sumroy

On 2 November 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour presented a 67-word letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leading advocate for the Zionist movement in Britain. It read: “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and “will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object.” This letter became known as the Balfour Declaration.

Sep 2, 2024 | vashtimedia.com | Azfar Shafi |Emily Coatman |Asha Lyons Sumroy |Francesca Newton

The race riots that engulfed the UK at the start of August capped off a tumultuous and sobering six weeks for the British Muslim community. Having organised rigorously as a bloc and succeeded in staging a political earthquake during the general election, what should have been a historic moment of reflection for the British media and political class instead became open season to smear the Muslim community.