Zahra Airall

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]

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

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]

References
  1. Hillhouse, Joanne C. (2 June 2012). "Being a feminist in the Caribbean". Antigua Observer. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  2. Louise., Kras, Sara (2008). Antigua and Barbuda (2nd ed.). Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark. p. 82. ISBN 9780761425700. OCLC 71800621.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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 978-1494213794. 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.
  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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