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Twenty years ago, the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp as we now know it saw its first detainees from the War on Terror enter. Will President Joe Bid

Twenty years ago, the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp as we now know it saw its first detainees from the War on Terror enter. Will President Joe Bid

7 min read actor Riz Ahmed learned some remarkable things when preparaing for his Oscar-nominated performance in Sound of Metal At 38, Riz Ahmed is an accomplished actor, admired rapper, committed activist – and a metric. In 2018, inspired by Ahmed’s often colour-blind roles, academics Dr Sadia Habib and Shaf Choudry constructed the Riz Test, the Muslim equivalent of the Bechdel test. Ahmed was not involved at the conceptual level of the procedure, which ticks such boxes as “superstitious”, “irrationally angry” and “perpetrator of terrorism”, but the...

SHARE Throughout his career, British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed has used his platform for activism and advocacy, and pushed for better representation of Muslims in the media. So it’s only natural that he’d make history as the first Muslim to be nominated in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category at the Oscars, for his powerful performance in Sound of Metal. The actor, 38, who plays a drummer who loses his hearing in the drama, has already won a number of awards and critical acclaim for the role. The Oscar nomination is one of six categories the film is up for, including a supporting r...