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The brief but educational time I earned £60,000 to edit a national newspaper
I went from working for myself to suddenly managing 24 people as a department head.
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Why finding love should take a village
Does the search for love have to be an individual pursuit?
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All these little sins
Every single day in 2024, I asked for forgiveness 1,000 times and it has transformed me.
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Dating is fun, actually?
I've gone on nine first dates this year. You're going to read it coz of the compelling nature of the dating industrial complex.
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The (s)talking stage: On the dating disadvantage of being an online person
Trigger warning!!!
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The speech I never made
My sister, my best friend, the soul of my soul, got married and there's so much I didn't get to say.
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The first trip around the sun
My notes from heartbreak.
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The mosques that glued me back together
It was the house of worship that healed me and called me closer to God. If only mosques were more available to Muslim women.
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Romance as rizq: Not everyone is going to have it
Omar Suleiman's Why Me series on love and marriage has us singletons gagged. Let's talk about it.
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It should have been Emma in Paris – some frantic thoughts on One Day and dating a white person
I’m guessing you’re here because you’ve seen Netflix’s gut-wrenching retelling of One Day, a novel by David Nicholls previously adapted into a film with…
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Making £1k in three months - When your career doesn't love you back
Journalism opportunities are fast dwindling. Where to go from here?
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On the one after the one
Hello heartbreak, my old friend.
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I made this for you!
I made this for you!
Short-ish essays about love, life, culture, work, and social justice. From me, a journalist and Bengali-Muslim woman, plus other literary babes and faves.
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Some of my profesh writing bits in case you were interested

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