Aaya Al-Shamahi

MA CHARACTER ANIMATION, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON, CENTRAL ST MARTINS

I have an academic background in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS, and I am currently a multimedia journalist specialising in the Middle East and Islamophobia in the UK. News is becoming more visual and more accessible, and so it has never been more important to use animation to tell news stories and counteract the negative portrayal of Muslims in the media. I also just love drawing for the sake of drawing, so I’m very excited to start this course and fulfil my passion.