Creator
Zinaid Meeran
Zinaid Meeran is a writer and filmmaker based in Cape Town. He is a founding member of art collective Team Tarbaby. He is the author of the novels Saracen at the Gates and Tanuki Ichiban.
Review: State capture is business as usual in ‘Vagabond’
The South Korean Netflix drama will resonate with audiences, for all the wrong reasons
Please don’t celebrate me: Nothing hurts more
The Netflix series Sex Education shows that whether you’re celebrating or vilifying “the Other”, it’s all part of the same subjugation
What is this place?: The visual simulacrum of South Africa in the Covid-19 lockdown
Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?
Covid-19 lockdown: Towards a capsule existence
How online media during the Coronavirus lockdown foreshadows a permanently encapsulated life
Shooting stars in the Karoo
Zinaid Meeran attended a crash course on the status of the national identity at the Apollo Film Festival in Victoria West.
A new take on an old faith
Zinaid Meeran meets writer turned actress Rayda Jacobs whose novel, <i>Confessions of a Gambler</i>, now a movie, reflects on women in Islam.