Yazeed Kamaldien - View category Culture and Compassion

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This website is a showcase of the travel writing and photography of Yazeed Kamaldien, a South African journalist and photographer.

Yazeed started his career at a daily newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa, and has since worked as an editor of a national newspaper for teenagers, a freelance writer for various magazines and newspapers as well as Internet publications.

He has also produced radio documentaries and news reports for a community radio station in Cape Town. His journalistic work has taken him to various countries and he has also worked as a journalist in Egypt, Germany and Jordan. He has a keen interest in travel writing.

Yazeed completed a four-year journalism course at the Peninsula Technikon in Cape Town and a post-graduate diploma in media management at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.

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This exhibition was housed at the District Six museum in as part of the Cape Town Month of Photography in 2002 and was also exhibited at MuseumAfrika as part of the Bonani Africa exhibition in 2003.

It comprises black and white as well as colour photographs. The colour photographs depict the cultural component of Muslims in the Cape Town. Birth, marriage and death are shown. So is celebration. It’s a local angle on Islam.

The black and white photographs talk about the compassion of this Muslim community. It comments on the global connectedness of Muslim communities by documenting the supportive response of this Muslim community to find solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.