{"id":828,"name":"Omar Ahmed","url":"","description":"Omar Ahmed is a PhD Researcher at the University of Manchester. He was awarded funding by the AHRC in 2015 to investigate Indian Parallel Cinema. He is also a Film &amp; Media Studies teacher, formerly Head of Film at Aquinas College, Manchester. He has been teaching Film and Media Studies for over 12 years and has a PGCE in Further Education and a BA in Film Studies. He completed his Masters at the University of Manchester, specialising in Indian Cinema. He published his first book <em>Studying Indian Cinema<\/em> (Auteur) in 2015 and has recently contributed several essays to <em>The Directory of World Cinema: India<\/em> (Intellect, 2015). He is currently writing a monograph on <em>RoboCop<\/em> (1987). He can be contacted at <a href=\"mailto:oahmed5@gmail.com\">oahmed5@gmail.com<\/a> and he collects his writings at <a href=\"https:\/\/moviemahal.net\/\">https:\/\/moviemahal.net\/<\/a>. His twitter handle is: @bressonian","link":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/author\/omarahmed\/","slug":"omarahmed","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","48":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","96":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg"},"meta":[],"acf":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":11682,"full":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","blog_id":3,"24":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","32":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","48":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","64":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","96":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","128":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","192":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","256":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg","300":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/userphoto\/828.jpg"},"elementor_introduction":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}