Shaheen Ahmed is a researcher and filmmaker from the Malabar Coast of Kerala in South India. Previously, he was a multimedia producer at The Caravan Magazine in New Delhi. Through his ongoing practice, he explores themes of memory and identity, particularly focusing on the intersection of Islamic mysticism and collective spiritual imaginations within these contexts. He is currently working on art projects based on the Sufi cosmos of the Malabar Coast and Lakshadweep Islands in the Indian Ocean, and is developing an art research project on South Asian Muslim migrant communities in Europe. He is a graduate of the DocNomads documentary filmmaking program based in Lisbon, Budapest, and Brussels.