Dua Abbas Rizvi


Dua Abbas Rizvi

Dua Abbas Rizvi is a visual artist and writer from Lahore, Pakistan, with more than a decade of experience in arts journalism. Her writings on art and culture, with a focus on South Asia and the arts of the Islamic world, have been regularly published in newspapers and journals of repute, including Herald, Dawn, The Friday Times, ArtNow, and The Aleph Review. She has also contributed essays to Encounters: The Art of Interfaith Dialogue (Brepols), the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (De Gruyter), Image Journal (for which she serves as an editorial advisor), and Selvedge Magazine. In 2022, she was awarded a South Asia Speaks Fellowship to develop her first book of visual nonfiction: a graphic memoir.

In Helsinki, Minutes for Gaza

Dua Abbas Rizvi

Feb 04, 2025

A reflection on the surreal experience of living in a largely indifferent Europe run by complicit governments as a genocide unfolds elsewhere