Press
Here you can see a selection of press
Frieze: The Shubbak Festival of Arab Culture Dances Between the Historical and Personal.
July 2021
The National News: New scene for London's Arab diaspora among Park Royal's industrial estates
September 2021
July 2021
The Evening Standard: 8 Must See Events
June 2021
January 2021
Co-creating change: What we learnt from the first Learning Conversation: the Writers & Critic
December 2020
December 2020
November 2020
Creative United: Redefining value in the art market.
October 2020
Grizedale Arts: How to change the offer and reset delivery systems.
October 2020
September 2020
The White Pube: {the community, the state and a specific kind of headache}
February 2020
Run Riot: An interview with Zain Dada on This Is Private & Free Word
October 2018
Amal: 5 (and a bit) questions with… Zain Dada
January 2018
Late At Tate Britain, Faith & Creativity
June 2018
Dazed Digital: 2017: the year South Asian culture finally gets celebrated?
October 2017
Report from the Muslim Art Conference
October 2017
Huck Magazine: An Interview with Zain Dada on Khidr Collective
July 2017
Vice: Taboo Busting Islamic Zine, an interview with Zain Dada
August 2017
Decolonising SOAS: Student Perspectives
December 2016
SOAS University: Vote of Thanks by Zain-Mohamed Dada, SOAS Graduation Ceremony 2016
September 2016
Middle East Eye: Do 'British values' favour colonial comeback over multiculturalism?
April 2016
The Guardian: Freshers: carry forward the fight for safe spaces at university
September 2015
May 2014
Times Series: Words Apart group in Barnet uses poetry and music to tackle gang culture
August 2011
INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES AND TALKS
The Guardian: ‘Joy matters’: UK theatre festival tackles hard-hitting issues with a sense of fun.
"Other plays in the festival tackle racism in football (Zidane of the Ends by Zain Dada), domestic abuse (End Cubicle by Kat Rose-Martin) and the radicalisation of young working-class men (Bump by Kelly Jones). There is an element of protest within all of the plays, said Das, “but the best protest songs have the catchiest tunes”. The scripts duly interrogate these and other issues with wit and a sense of inquisitiveness.”
The Writers Mosaic: Praise for Emily (Glitched) in Paris.
“A stand-out play is Zain Dada’s Emily (Glitched) in Paris, an arresting critique of French colonialism through a conversation between Emily, a white tourist, and her waiter, Samir. The restaurant setting provides a metaphor for French high society in which Samir (of North African origin) has to keep up a façade of colonial subservience.”