Azra Rashid, Author at Forget The Box

Azra Rashid

Azra Rashid is a freelance journalist and a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University, Montreal. After completing her HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto and a diploma in Broadcast Journalism from Seneca College, Rashid began pursuing a career as a journalist and a filmmaker. Rashid worked as a lead story writer for Toronto magazine, Business Speak: Women in Business, Finance and Technology, and then freelanced for New York-based TV channel Democracy Now! To work on her documentary, Dishonour Defied, Rashid went back to Pakistan where she also worked as a Producer for a North American channel CNBC and then later assisted with the launch of Pakistan's first English-language news channel DawnNews, as a producer. After successfully completing her award-winning documentary Dishonour Defied, Rashid worked for Omni TV in Alberta as a producer/director for Omni News: South Asian Edition for over a year. Rashid completed her Masters degree in Journalism from Ryerson University in 2010. She is currently developing a documentary on forced marriages in Canada, with the working title Unveiling the Abuse.

Indie Painter Ray Nylund is Not a Quitter

History is witness to the gross underestimation of brilliant artists. A century after Van Gogh’s demise, Don McLean sings praises of Starry Starry night, a view from Van Gogh’s asylum window. Not much has changed in the past century. What sets a mainstream artist apart from an indie artist is exposure and lets face it, we know little about the indie painters in our own backyard…

By Azra RashidOct 27, 2011Oct 29, 2011

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