Interview in "Lost In The Manor" for the single "Bazaar"

East European Film Bulletin, 2023

We met Bosnian filmmaker Aida Begić during the 63rd Thessaloniki Film Festival (November 3-13), where she presented her latest feature "A Ballad". Begić discusses the decision to deviate from her previous themes and aesthetics, the perception of the Balkans abroad and domestically, and how her film was received at home.

Entrevista original com o filósofo Nick Zangwill. Tradução publicada no jornal Estadão: http://cultura.estadao.com.br/blogs/estado-da-arte/entrevista-com-nick-zangwill-o-segredo-e-combinar-forma-e-conteudo/

Serials Review, 2006

In this list for 2005, we find 561 interviews, a slight decrease from last year's total, covering as usual a wide range of well-known and new writers and artists, in an international mix reflecting the wider audience and easier access generated through the Internet as many journals appear both in print and online. As always, we include a list of magazine titles currently received in the collection and not included in the forty-first edition of the International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses (Dustbooks), organized alphabetically by country of publication, providing mailing addresses for future reference. We do not at present attempt to provide current URLs for the online editions of our print journals, but are actively adding them, as well as for titles only appearing in electronic form, to our holdings.

Serials Review, 1990

This is the seventh appearance of our yearly index to interviews published in little magazines received for the Sukov Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Coverage started in 1985 and now spans a seven-year period. An earlier file in the department covers titles indexed since 1976 and is not yet computerized; we welcome inquiries pertaining to the contents of this file. A total of 523 writers, artists, performers, critics, designers, and others are featured in the present list, a substantial increase over the figure of 424 recorded in the previous installment. The variety of these offerings attests to a growing trend of interdisciplinarity. In the field as diverse as that of little magazines, established talents and new voices coexist, coming in good proportion from Australia and New Zealand as well as from North America and the United Kingdom. We continue to add to our active list of little magazines and this year's compilation reflects a higher proportion of titles not included in The InternationalDirectory of Little Magazines and Small Presses (26th ed., 1990-91).

Writers in Conversation

Nick Papadimitriou is a British author, whose widely acclaimed novel Scarp was published in 2013. He is also the author of Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barnet, Finchley and Hendon (2009). Papadimitriou designed the Middlesex County Council website in 2007, and in the same year he helped provide material for Will Self’s The Book of Dave. in 2009, John Rogers made a film on Papadimitriou’s life and thought, called The London Perambulator. From 2009 to 2011, along with Rogers, Papadimitriou hosted Ventures and Adventures in Topography, a radio show on Resonance FM. Papadimitriou calls his walks and writing ‘deep topography,’ and is in turn described by his professional colleagues as a ‘deep topographer’, distinguishing his field of research and literature from ongoing trends of psychogeography.This interview was conducted on a rainy afternoon, in a small café at Golders Green, near Hampstead Heath, in London.

Society for Armenian Studies Podcast, 2021

Be sure to subscribe/follow in order to automatically receive new episodes on your mobile streaming device. And leave a review on iTunes to help the podcast gain in popularity and reach new listeners! Also be sure to like the new Facebook page here. SAS Podcast #57-Vera Sahakyan Vera Sahakyan (PhD Student and Researcher at Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts-Madenataran) Մշոյ Բուլանըք գաւառի հայաբնակ գիւղերն ըստ Մկրտիչ Ա. Խրիմեան կաթողիկոսին ուղղուած նամակների (The Armenian Populated Villages of the District of Bulanık in Mush according to the Letters sent to Catholicos Mgrditch A. Khrimian) (Yerevan: Madenataran, 2021) Interviewed by Arpik Sahakyan. https://armenianstudies.podbean.com/?action=openPodcast&podcastId=pbblog5272807&podcastIdTag=igg64&utm_campaign=u_share_pp&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=u_share&fbclid=IwAR0ZsPeO6r9QJjUKE809UafC5EyF2sCrUC4qdiIhmhYqeJ4JvVTDNIOnpb4 https://societyforarmenianstudies.com/sas-podcasts/?fbclid=IwAR0ZsPeO6r9QJjUKE809UafC5EyF2sCrUC4qdiIhmhYqeJ4JvVTDNIOnpb4

Stefanie Hessler, Kostis Stafylakis and Poka-Yio in Conversation, 2018

https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/stefanie-hessler-kostis-stafylakis-and-poka-yio/

The Dybbukast , 2023

In this second of our five-episode series with the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University (NEJS), we explore "The Imagined Childhood,” a short story originally published in Hebrew in 1979. Written by the prolific 20th-century Iraqi-born Israeli author Shimon Ballas, the story served as an epilogue to a collection of short stories whose narratives intersect with the author's early life in Baghdad.

1981

The conversations transcribed here, held in New York City, Miami, and Annandale-on-Hudson, are excerpted from a longer collection, Isaac Bashevis Singer: Glimpses.

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2020

Together with her husband Ashique Mostafa, Rubaiyat founded the production company Khona Talkies (http://www.khonatalkies.com/), called after the 12th century Bengali poetess and astrologer. This interview took place in London in the summer of 2018. It was conducted by Valentina Vitali, and transcribed and edited by Shaun Alexander. Valentina Vitali: Tell me about your background. Rubaiyat Hossain: I have a bachelor's degree in women's studies and a master's degree in South Asian studies with a focus on religion. I was going to be an academic. That was my goal and I was interested in gender. I worked with women's rights organisations in Bangladesh and as an intern with NGOs during my holidays, and really that was where I wanted to be. By the time I finished my undergraduate studies I felt that I wanted to know more about the region that I'm from. When you study gender studies in a North American institution you learn all about American feminism, which is great, but I wanted my perspective to be more specific to my region. So, I did an MA in South Asian studies. The idea was also to a do a PhD, but I always wanted to make films. I grew up reading children's books by Satyajit Ray. Later I realised that he was also a filmmaker and read his book on cinema. He talked about the French New Wave, Neorealism etc. This allowed me to begin to see film as a craft. So I enrolled at the New York Film Academy to do a film diploma. We shot short films with 16mm cameras and learned how to edit. I obtained my diploma in the summer of 2002. As a graduation present I asked my parents to buy me a PD150 camera and started making short films. I sent them to festivals in Las Vegas, New York and Dhaka. Eventually, in 2008, I was able to make my first feature film. I also met my partner, in 2007, who had studied film direction and production at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He was in Dhaka and looking for someone to work with, to produce. I was also looking for someone to work with. We made our first feature and set up our own company. You know how in South Asia parents set aside big sums of money for their children's weddings. We got married in London, in a bookstore, for £200 and used the wedding money to make our film together.