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Anwar Akhtar
Anwar Akhtar is Director of www.thesamosa.co.uk a culture and politics site with a focus on Britain and South Asia.He is also an associate of www.urbed.coop regeneration practice. Anwar was born in Manchester, to Pakistani parents and spent his junior years working on his dad's market stalls selling jumpers and T shirts. He was Chief Executive of the Cultural Industries Development Agency (CIDA) and spent three years as Director of Rich Mix, an arts and cultural centre in East London and ten years working as a DJ and Club promoter in Sheffield.