A non-profit organization founded by anthropologists, oral-historians and writers, Anam Zakaria and Haroon Khalid, Qissa is a storytelling platform that documents, archives, and exhibits oral histories of immigrants to Canada. Telling the stories of immigrants in their own voices, Qissa challenges the western gaze through which stories of immigrants are framed. Starting as an artistic collective in 2020, Qissa incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2024.
Anam Zakaria and Haroon Khalid being interviewed for the Driving Canada: A Front Seat View of Immigration through Uber, by Emily Burton of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (CMIP). This was a collaborative project between Qissa and CMIP. Photo Credit: Darryl LeBlanc