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    Frieze, 04 December 2018

    Tania Bruguera Arrested Twice in Cuban Censorship Law Protests; Threatens to Go on Hunger Strike.

    "Bruguera’s sister, Deborah, along with friend Sofia Karim told us: ‘Tania is continuing in the fight against censorship and for the freedom of the other detained artists. We believe that the artists concerned have commenced a hunger and thirst strike. "

    SOFIA KARIM

    Architect Zaha Hadid – A brilliant eye that chose to look the other way | Sofia Karim
    Sofia Karim
    • Jan 28, 2020
    • 7 min

    Architect Zaha Hadid – A brilliant eye that chose to look the other way | Sofia Karim

    Published in Shuddhashar Magazine, October 01 2019 In this Q&A, Sofia Karim discusses the architecture of Zaha Hadid. Born in Iraq, based...
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    Essays on Architecture
    Sofia Karim
    • Sep 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    Essays on Architecture

    Essays on Architecture - 01 I The idea came whilst I was swimming, as so many of my ideas do. When I am weightless. II If architecture is...
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    Savar
    Sofia Karim
    • Jun 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Savar

    Savar I On 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza garments factory in Savar, Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134. Global trade unions called it a...
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    I’m not sure I can design buildings in the language I was taught anymore.
    Sofia Karim
    • Jun 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    I’m not sure I can design buildings in the language I was taught anymore.

    The Amdani holding cell packs hundreds of prisoners in. They lie in patterns such as “ilish fish file”, knotting their bodies in ordered...
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    Lu Guang
    Sofia Karim
    • Jun 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Lu Guang

    No one was saying anything about China. When the photographer Lu Guang went missing in Kashgar, I wondered if we could try and help. But...
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    Language
    Sofia Karim
    • Jun 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Language

    I use architectural drawing as a language, not only to describe buildings but to tell the stories of my life. Censorship, secrecy,...
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    Ode to an Urn - Military Industrial Complex
    Sofia Karim
    • Jun 11, 2019
    • 5 min

    Ode to an Urn - Military Industrial Complex

    Published in June 2019 edition of Shuddhashar Journal I On a college trip to California many years ago, I drove through Joshua Tree...
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One Hundred Days: The Ballad of Keraniganj Jail
    Sofia Karim
    • Jun 11, 2019
    • 1 min

    One Hundred Days: The Ballad of Keraniganj Jail

    Article I wrote to commemorate my uncle’s 100th day in jail, published by Bangladesh’s leading English language newspaper, The Daily...
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