Mir Suhail is a political cartoonist and illustrator based in New York City. He is from Indian-occupied Kashmir, where he grew up and started his political cartooning career drawing for a local daily at the age of fourteen. He has since drawn cartoons for leading print and digital news media, magazines, publishers and non-profit organizations in the Indian sub-continent and internationally including for CNN-News 18, The Caravan Magazine, Amnesty International, Action Aid and Save the Children. His work has been profiled in the Raiot, BBC and Al-Jazeera English amongst other publications.

Find Mir’s work at: https://mirsuhailportfolio.wordpress.com/

Mir Suhail will be in conversation with Deepti Misri, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, and a member of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective.

This event is a part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong exploration of the theme Memory.

Part of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series.