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