Dizi

17/07/2022

Are you ready for this level of dapper? #

Started in 2012, The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride brings out dapper men on bikes in different cities around the world to raise funds for men's health.

13/07/2022

Keema is LOVE. But by substituting traditional animal-based meat with planet-friendly plant-based meat products, even vegetarians can savor it! | bluetribefoods

Just reading, hearing, writing or speaking the words ‘South Asian delicacies’ immediately pop a visual of a lip-smacking and drool-worthy platter. From little dumplings to royal Biryani, the South Asian dishes are a rema...

24/05/2022

Asia Loves its Flavours. Plant Based Meat Has a Tough Job Here! PS: Now you can read DIZI's articles on Medium too!

Everybody’s uncles and their wives are turning vegan in Asia. After all, it isn’t for anything that the vegan and plant-based products…

13/05/2022

Contrary to popular opinion, the red chili powder is not native to India. It was brought by European colonialists but spread rapidly in the country because when combined with other spices like cumin, garlic and onion, it produced powerful antibiotic effects that could kill fungi or bacteria.

That's why people in hotter climate countries prefer to eat spicy food, and people in colder climate countries prefer to eat blander food.

10/05/2022

Artist Ali Godil, Founder of House of Gül, shows how Islamic visuals can add to graphic art https://bit.ly/3wl1IB8

09/05/2022

5 paintings from the Instagram page that decolonises art palettes https://bit.ly/37rNFBs

05/05/2022

Rachana Dahal is a Nepali indie music artist who lends her strong, distinctive voice to back powerful songs about issues like domestic violence, su***de and mental health. So far having built a loyal community around her music in Nepal, the 24-year-old wishes to tour globally as well, through her music. https://bit.ly/3sdiG3a

The second single "SOCH" is a collective experiences of a community, born out of the rage of the silenced voices and out of hope that it'll give courage to t...

28/04/2022

Lisa Lov is allergic to fish but when her restaurant TIGERMOM wanted to add something fish-based to their menu, she decided to take charge and make a Cambodian steamed cod curry, which reminded her of her Cambodian heritage, and also, of the hospital, where she was rushed to after eating the fish! Here's Lisa Lov's recipe for a Cambodian steamed cod curry | Lisa Lov Tigermom https://bit.ly/3LpluC5

27/04/2022

REPRESENTATION IN FILMS MATTERS! In the US, over a quarter Muslims identify as Black or African American, a quarter identify as East Asian and 19% as White (Source: Geena Davis Institute of Gender in Media)

Despite this, a study of films from four countries found that 66.7% of Muslim characters on-screen were Middle Eastern or Arab. https://bit.ly/3vFBWao

27/04/2022

DIZI gives a special salaam to Yasmin Lari, the first female architect of Pakistan, and Minnette de Silva, the first woman to become a licensed architect in Sri Lanka | MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, celebrates architects from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh who gave shape and expression to idealistic societal visions and emancipatory politics o...

26/04/2022

In Australia, for a long time, food meant MOSTLY WHITE. But a bunch of passionate freelance food journalists, including Lee Tran Lam, have created an incredible online platform for under-represented voices in Australia to share their food stories and bring more diversity to Australian food media https://bit.ly/3Ld32wh

24/04/2022

Being big, brown and Asian is not 1/10th as visible as being Big and white | How Drama

Ross Nasir is a big brown woman from Singapore. Through a musical comedy titled BIG BROWN GIRL, the actor-writer is pioneering the body acceptance movement in a city-state that, as AFP writes, "once forced children to jo...

23/04/2022

Nikesh Murali lives in Sydney but runs Indian Noir, India's most popular crime and horror podcast
https://bit.ly/3xNaDO5

20/04/2022

The Bidesia Project captures the sentiment of longing and migration in Bhojpuri folk (Uttar Pradesh, India)

"Someone familiar has landed at her door.

19/04/2022

"When it comes to other people's cultures, be respectful" - DIZI stans this queen Chizi Duru https://bit.ly/3vqiEWt

I know i'm late but I HAD to react to this fufu challenge. What are your thoughts? Comment below! Shirt I'm wearing: https://kaicollective.com/product/irun-s...

17/04/2022

HIT THE ROAD (2021) is a comedy-drama featuring a family as they make their way over the rugged mountains of northern Iran. The film is currently being screened at the Indie Meme.Org Festival

HIT THE ROAD (2021) is a comedy-drama featuring a family as they make their way over the rugged mountains of northern Iran. The film is currently being screened at the Indie Meme film festival in Austin, Texas, which hos...

16/04/2022

INSTANT REVIEWS ABOUT INSTANT NOODLES FEAT. The Ramen Rater

Your Guide To The World Of Instant Noodles Since 2002

16/04/2022

Host A Sister 🌎: A Revolutionary Private Facebook Group for Women Travellers

Two weeks ago, Nicole Grace, a Malaysian, went to Scotland where she was hosted by Rebekah Oakley. They did not know each other in person, but had met through Host a Sister, a Facebook group.

14/04/2022

Immigrant Food is Washington DC’s first restaurant that celebrates, advocates & educates on behalf of immigrants. They even have a Madam VP Heritage Bowl featuring Kamala Harris' roots! DIZI takes the liberty to highlight their incredible work. https://bit.ly/3Ebtrbd

Pic Courtesy: immigrantfood/Instagram

13/04/2022

DIZI's FEATURED FILM OF THE DAY: Islands by director Martin Edralin has shown the Filipino diaspora with deep empathy and we are here for it 👏👏👏👏

Islands is a coming-of-middle-age film about a timid Filipino immigrant struggling with the care of an elderly parent while managing his first experience of puppy love.

13/04/2022

Grace Wales Bonner describes her work as a 'hybrid of European and Afro-Atlantic approaches, and we are so in love with the vibe of the brand. BTW, have you checked out their Discover Volta Jazz Spring Summer 2022 collection?
https://bit.ly/3uBEcAd

12/04/2022

The Tetseo Sisters are four singing sisters from Nagaland who have become one of the most famous cultural ambassadors of this North-East Indian state. Have you checked out their latest gospel cover song, which dropped just now? https://bit.ly/37FSfvy

12/04/2022

Anitta has dominated the Brazillian music market in a limited span of ten years. And now she's raising the stakes some more.

Boasting 61 million followers on Instagram alone, Anitta has clearly earned the masses' love as well as the classes' approval in the Brazilian music market. On April 12, as she releases Versions of Me, her first trilingu...

10/04/2022

As the father of the qawwali, Amir Khusrau created a musical form that has for centuries swept both India and Pakistan with its mystical embrace.

Amir Khusrau, a Turkish-Indian child prodigy who later became a Sufi singer, poet and mystic, became the father of qawwali (a devotional form of singing of the Sufis in the Indian subcontinent). What he started in the 13...

09/04/2022

DIZI celebrates the groundbreaking work by Southall Black Sisters towards ending violence against women of colour | From The Archives

On Day 1 of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence campaign, Dizi celebrates the groundbreaking efforts taken by Southall Black Sisters towards ending violence against women of colour.

08/04/2022

Musica Medicina brings together sounds and stories from various nature traditions and folk cultures and presents them in a contemporary form

Musica Medicina, a project led by Vishesh Kalimero and Rahul Jigyasu, brings together old world instruments from different parts of the world to bring on a new form of experimental traditional music.

07/04/2022

: Besides Kombucha, have you heard of Kvass, Amasi and Kanji?

Kombucha...gotcha! The K drink has become the K Pop of global food culture. The 2000-year-old miracle drink is on everyone's mind, or rather, tongue. Turns out, the hype is not at all new.

07/04/2022

"As a producer when I see talent and a diversity of voices and what they want to tell, I try to support it." - Maarten Schmidt, Founder, Storyhouse

Meet Maarten Schmidt, a producer whose Belgium-based production company, Storyhouse, has been on a mission to tell stories that reflect diversity and inclusivity.

06/04/2022

Bangla Surf Girls takes us into the heart of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh where young girls join an unlikely social experiment - a co-ed local surf club.

86 mins | 2021| Documentary (Bangla with English subtitles)