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Rejecting a £90,000-salary job after three years of unemployment
Needless to say, it wasn't an easy decision.
Dec 2, 2025
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How to decentre marriage and why we must
There are other worthwhile pursuits too; faith, friendship, community, world-building.
Sep 4, 2025
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The price of my neck
I put on a hijab and realised its cost, but I'd do it again, a thousand times over.
Jun 25, 2025
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The brief but educational time I earned £60,000 to edit at a national newspaper
I went from working for myself to suddenly managing 24 people as a department head.
Jun 9, 2025
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Why finding love should take a village
Does the search for love have to be an individual pursuit?
Feb 13, 2025
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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.
Dec 22, 2024
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Dating is fun, actually?
I've gone on nine first dates this year and it's taught me something about the compelling nature of the dating industrial complex.
Sep 19, 2024
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The (s)talking stage: On the dating disadvantage of being an online person
Trigger warning!!!
Aug 15, 2024
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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.
Jun 6, 2024
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The first trip around the sun
My notes from heartbreak.
May 11, 2024
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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.
Apr 4, 2024
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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.
Mar 27, 2024
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