Safdar Ahmed Safdar Ahmed i(14578046 works by)
Gender: Male
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Sydney-based artist, musician, and academic.

Safdar Ahmed holds a PhD with the Department of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Sydney, his dissertation was published by IB Tauris as Reform and Modernity in Islam. He is also a founding member of the Refugee Art Project.

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y separately published work icon Still Alive : Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System Ventnor : Twelve Panels Press , 2021 22579311 2021 single work graphic novel

'In early 2011, Safdar Ahmed visited Sydney’s Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for the first time. He brought pencils and sketchbooks into the centre and started drawing with the people detained there. Their stories are told in this book.

'Interweaving journalism, history and autobiography, Still Alive is an intensely personal indictment of Australia’s refugee detention policies and procedures. It is also a searching reflection on the redemptive power of art. And death metal.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 joint winner Comic Arts Awards of Australia Gold Award
2022 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adults' Fiction
2022 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year
2022 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Multicultural NSW Award
2022 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Eve Pownall Award
y separately published work icon Still Alive : Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System Ventnor : Twelve Panels Press , 2021 22579311 2021 single work graphic novel

'In early 2011, Safdar Ahmed visited Sydney’s Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for the first time. He brought pencils and sketchbooks into the centre and started drawing with the people detained there. Their stories are told in this book.

'Interweaving journalism, history and autobiography, Still Alive is an intensely personal indictment of Australia’s refugee detention policies and procedures. It is also a searching reflection on the redemptive power of art. And death metal.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 joint winner Comic Arts Awards of Australia Gold Award
2022 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adults' Fiction
2022 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year
2022 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Multicultural NSW Award
2022 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Eve Pownall Award
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