Writing


Published articles


Huck magazine |  In Baghdad, skater girls are reshaping Iraqi womanhood

Financial Times
| Sarah Agha and the Arab Film Club: Stories that speak to a global audience

The New Arab | Abla El-Sharnouby’s podcast ‘Altered Fates’ takes on lightbulb moments

Financial Times | Comedian Jenan Younis: ‘There are certain roles you are expected to play’

The New Arab | London’s Refugee Week celebrates the creativity of filmmakers

It’s Nice That | Branding a city: what makes a successful design?

Middle East Eye | Muslim couture: How big labels miss the mark when it comes to modest fashion

The New Arab | BBC documentary about Palestinians during the Nakba ‘validates voices’

The Guardian | Crossing the line: Louis Tomlinson queue controversy sparks debate around camping for gigs

The New Arab | Finding my Iraq, 31 years after I left

It’s Nice That | Surveying the animation boom and its effects on the creative industry

Middle East Eye | Christmas dinner in Bethlehem: stuffing and pudding with Palestinian flavours

It’s Nice That | Celebrating the legacy of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity

VICE MUNCHIES | The country she knew had gone, so she recaptured it through food

HuffPost | My germaphobia has never felt more ‘normal’

Gal-dem | Coronavirus reminds us how POC have always been stigmatised as unclean

The Guardian | I quit my boring job for univeristy at 30. The expense was daunting but my self-worth soared

Middle East Eye | ‘Where two worlds meet’: Tamino to perform in Egypt for first time

Londonist | Why should English be the first language of Londoners?

Artefact magazine | The writing on the wall: is commercialism killing street art?

Gal-dem | The new Aladdin film is just as orientalist as the last

Time Out London | Things you only know if you’re an imam



Financial Times


Liste art fair is driving towards the digital

Grammy-nominated singer Arlo Parks: ‘I need brain food, I need dream fuel’

A gallery for ‘the multitude of identities we have as Africans’

Cecilia Bengolea brings Jamaican dancehall to Art Basel

Arlo Parks – a picture of cool at Village Underground (review)

London Grammar aim to pump up the joy at All Points East

Charles Ede – 50 years in antiques

A Bookshop in Algiers – turning the pages of history (review)

TV’s new Muslim female punks: ‘They’re not having a crisis of faith’

Tamino brings his mellow grooves to the Scala, London (review)

Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan: ‘My presence is a challenge’



VICE MUNCHIES


Inside the huge roti-making operation at ‘Muslim Glastonbury’

A love letter to dolma, a Middle Eastern parcel of joy

A sugar-saturated guide to Middle Eastern sweets

This vegan Caribbean cookbook is grandma-approved

Welcome to the world’s least likely Palestinian restaurant

Yasmin Khan’s new cookbook is a ‘fun, frightening, joyful, stressful’ adventure into Palestinian food

All the best ways to break your Ramadan fast



Gazette magazine (selection)


Day trip to Brownsea Castle

Aladdin West End show (review)

John Lewis’s fashion buying teams

‘Solent talent’

Interview with illustrator Paul Thurlby

JL’s extended guarantees boost sales and trust



Other


Medium | Selection of articles produced during my MA course in Arts and Lifestyle Journalism

UAL Outreach | What is journalism?

Liminality | UAL students helping to debunk stereotypes