Amina Aaliya Beg is a multi-disciplinary artist: writer, performer, DJ and co-founder of ajeeb studios. She has been part of the BFI Film Hub North (2024), and her work has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival My Mum Told Me Not To Marry An Atheist (2025) and Sohni (2021), Leicester Curve Theatre Hope New Mill (2024) and at the Òran Mór West (Cow)lder (2026). Amina has created a short film Daytimers which has been screened in London (Gunnersby Park Museum), Manchester (Contact Theatre) and Edinburgh (Whitespace Gallery). Amina aims to use her platform in the arts to change the social and political discourse framed around representation for Muslim women, using comedy and storytelling to bring joy, unity and liberation into our communities.
