Saadia Gardezi | |
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Education | M.Phil. |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, artist and peace activist |
Known for | Project Dastaan |
Saadia Gardezi is a Pakistani peace activist, artist and journalist. She co-founded Project Dastaan.[1][2]
Gardezi grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed an M.Phil. degree from University of Oxford as a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar.[1][3] She is pursuing a Ph.D. in international relations at the University of Warwick.[1]
Gardezi co-founded Project Dastaan with Sparsh Ahuja and Sam Dalrymple. The project is a peace initiative that reunites refugees displaced by the Partition of India of 1947 with their ancestral homes.[4][5]
Gardezi has worked as a political cartoonist for The Nation in Pakistan. She has worked as a journalist for several media outlets.[1][6]
Gardezi is an artist and runs an art studio called Penguin Pop.[7][8]
Gardezi produced Child of Empire, an animated film based on the partition of 1947. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022.[9][10]