journals Fuse and TSAR Publications. In 1995, he was the Guest Editor for Rungh magazine's Queer Special Issue. His curatorial catalogue essay for "Beyond Destinations", a show he curated for Ikon Gallery in 1993, was reprinted in Rungh in December 2019. He was also assistant editor of Bazaar Magazine, a quarterly journal covering South Asian arts in the UK in the early 1990s. Ian's personal essays have also been published in Wasafiri, Third Text and The Globe and Mail. Curating and festivals Rashid has also curated film programmes and exhibitions for venues such as the National Film Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Experimenta. He was the founder and first director of Desh Pardesh, Canada's first arts festival focusing on diasporic South Asian arts and culture. Awards Amongst many awards and festival prizes, Rashid has received the Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for Television Series Writing and the Aga Khan Award for Excellence in the Arts. He was selected as one of 2010's Breakthrough Brits on the prestigious UK Film Council (BFI) programme alongside Riz Ahmed, Yann Demange, Daniel Kaluuya and others. His film and TV career began when he won a place on the prestigious BBC internship scheme Black Screen, alongside writers such as playwright Tanika Gupta. In 2022, Ian was awarded a fellowship on the CBC-BIPOC TV & Film Showrunner Catalyst in partnership with the Canadian Film Centre as an emerging television/streaming Show Runner. His poetry has been nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. References External links Ian Iqbal Rashid on IMDb 1971 births 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian screenwriters British film directors British male screenwriters British male television writers British male writers British poets British television writers Canadian male poets Canadian male screenwriters Canadian writers of Asian descent Canadian gay writers LGBT film directors Canadian LGBT poets Tanzanian LGBT writers British LGBT writers Living people People from Dar es Salaam Film directors from Toronto Tanzanian emigrants to Canada Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom Tanzanian people of Indian descent Tanzanian Ismailis British people of Indian descent British writers of Indian descent British people of Gujarati descent British Ismailis Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian Ismailis Indian Ismailis Khoja Ismailism Gay poets Gay screenwriters