Omair Danish (he/him)

Graduate Student
Man with shoulder length hair wearing black tshirt looks straight into camera.

Contact Information

orafiq@uw.edu
PDL B202
Office Hours
1pm to 2pm on Thursdays, by appointment. Book at omairdanish.youcanbook.me

Fields of Interest

21st Century New Media Piracy Postcolonial Queer Studies Race and Ethnicity Science and Technology South Asian Urban Studies Video Games

Biography

B.S., Social Sciences and Liberal Arts, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Omair is a first-year MA student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington. He is an archivist, photographer, and writer/editor. His research interests lie in new and legacy media artifacts, piracy networks, digital cultures, and media archives of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His undergraduate thesis researched Karachi's pirated video game markets, piracy methods, and their relation to gamers and local gaming cultures. On most days, you can find him thrifting books, playing video games, or taking pictures on the street. You can find his work on Instagram @cubisticromeos.

Book Reviews:

Danish, Omair. “Hot Cross Buns: A Memoir.” Wasafiri, vol. 40, no. 2, 3 Apr. 2025, pp. 137–139, https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2025.2463227. 

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