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

Zahra Airall is a writer, women's rights activist, film maker. director, and playwright from Antigua and Barbuda. She is a founding member of the organization Women of Antigua and is one of their executives. She is the director of the Sugar Apple Theatre in Antigua. She has written plays such as The Forgotten, which was performed in the Caribbean Secondary Schools Drama Festival by Antigua Girls' High School. Airall is one of the contributors to She Sex, a collaborative book with sections written by different Caribbean women. She also writes short stories such as "The Looking Glass". She wrote a specially commissioned monologue for Heather Doram.

Awards

She has won multiple awards at the National Youth Awards (Antigua), 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). 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).

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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