{"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:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/omarahmed\/","slug":"omarahmed","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e111e053d171b81e27e9bbd697f5b98647cc127b73d86861954880d9c589280f?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e111e053d171b81e27e9bbd697f5b98647cc127b73d86861954880d9c589280f?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e111e053d171b81e27e9bbd697f5b98647cc127b73d86861954880d9c589280f?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}