Interview with Atiyyah Khan

Atiyyah Khan completed a degree in Journalism at Rhodes University in 2009. In 2010 she won the Pulitzer Fellowship award, and achieved an MA in Arts Journalism at the University of Southern California. Atiyyah is a journalist, arts writer, archivist, DJ, record collector and events-curator in Cape Town. Since 2007, she has documented arts and culture and been published in major newspapers across South Africa. Atiyyah is also the co-founder of music and art collective Future Nostalgia, which has been running since 2013 and hosts listening sessions and gigs around Cape Town. She has experimented with self-publishing with the zine Bismillah which references Islam and music in Africa. She was the Arts and Culture Journalist for online publication The New Frame and hosts a monthly radio show on Worldwide FM. Her alter-ego is DJ El Corazon, whose biography lists her as a selector, crate-digger and archivist from South Africa, who spins records as a way to communicate through sound. Future Nostalgia has established its name playing gigs from small underground events to large scale festivals. In December 2017, Atiyyah took on the role of sound artist working with Zimbabwean dancer and choreographer Nora Chipaumire.