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Bilal Qureshi

  • The audience at Beyonce's Dec. 3 performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
    Feminists Everywhere React To Beyonce's Latest
    Bilal Qureshi
    At the end of a year in which Sheryl Sandberg released Lean In, Miley Cyrus and Diane Martel provoked everybody, #solidarityisforwhitewomen was born, and British singer Lily Allen put her foot in it, Beyonce's album has reignited conversations about the boundaries of feminism today.
  • John Tateishi was incarcerated at Manzanar internment camp in California from age 3 until he was 6.
    From Wrong To Right: A U.S. Apology For Japanese Internment
    Bilal Qureshi
    More than 100,000 people of Japanese descent were put in camps during World War II. Decades later and inspired by the civil rights movement, Japanese-Americans launched a campaign for redress that culminated in an official apology. The community marks the 25th anniversary of that victory this week.
  • Parvati and Saleem (Shriya Saran and Satya Bhabha), born in tandem at the birth of independent India, are at the center of Salman Rushdie's novel <em>Midnight's Children. </em>Thirty years after the book's publication,<em> </em>filmmaker Deepa Mehta has committed the story to the big screen.
    An Epic Of India Gets A Canvas Its Own Size
    Bilal Qureshi
    Midnight's Children, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta, is a sweeping big-screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie's great novel of modern Indian history. NPR's Bilal Qureshi talks to the two storytellers about their collaboration on the project.
  • A boy chooses fruit from a stall as Jerusalem market vendors swirl around him.
    Jerusalem: A Love Letter To Food And Memories Of Home
    Bilal Qureshi
    Chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi say their latest cookbook is a chance to re-imagine the recipes of their childhoods, reminiscing about Jerusalem's open-air food markets and street food.
  • Luminaries including Mira Nair, Guneet Monga, Shailja Gupta, Nina Lath Gupta and Dibakar Banerjee attended TIFF's Asian Film Summit Banquet to discuss the growth of a new, realist South Asian cinema.
    Toronto Looks East With Asian Film Summit
    Bilal Qureshi
    Toronto is a spectacularly international city, which makes it an especially rich market for Asian cinema. Asian films brought a new brand of raw and gritty realism to this year's Toronto International Film Festival, as NPR's Bilal Qureshi reports.