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Fatima
AL QADIRI

The shape shifting star of contemporary electronica.
Words by Tom Faber. Photography by Justin Chung. Styling by Natasha Newman-Thomas.

It was a freezing night in February 2019, and onstage in Berlin as her alter ego, Shaneera, Fatima Al Qadiri was magnificently disdainful. Over the sound of her nimble, joyous club tracks—a mutant hybrid of UK grime music and the percussion of the Persian Gulf—she flicked her long black hair with venom. I wove through the heaving nightclub crowd to get a closer look. Her face was caked in layers of stage makeup but I could still make out a

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