Ali Istalifi, Crafts Specialist, Project Manager at Jindhag Foundation and Independent Filmmaker discusses the unique pottery of Istalif, Afghanistan at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
When Ali, now 28, returned to his family village in 2003, he found a ghost town of rubble piles inhabited by wild dogs. The village had been forgotten, and its people...
In 2009, inspired by Istalif’s story, the Arnold Hill Secondary school in London incorporated Istalif’s signature style of pottery-making into their curriculum...