Atifa Qazi is a trainee at KULTURAUSTAUSCH, a Berlin-based journal for international cultural and political perspectives. She previously worked for the artist collective Centre for Political Beauty (where she collaborated with the art intervention “Holocaust Memorial” and curated a book project for the collective). She has also worked in the cultural department of the Goethe Institute in Brussels. She holds a master’s degree in International and European Relations from Linköping University in Sweden. As part of her master's thesis, she explored the EU’s external border policies and western artistic activism from a postcolonial perspective. Her interests include international politics, topics relating to inequality as well as music cultures, in particular the French rap scene.