Shaista Anwar, an independent scholar of art and architecture, studied Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Hyderabad. She is the author of 'Eidgah: Multifunctional Open Architecture as a Shared Space for Memory and Emotion', in Hussain Rashid and Kristian Petersen (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture, London: Bloomsbury, 2023.