You have been writing for several years — since 2012 — if I’m not mistaken, even before your debut book ‘Midnight Doorways’. How has the journey been? Like most writers, I have been closet-writing since I was a child. My first publication was a Letter to the Editor of ‘Children’s Pakistan’ when I was seven...
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#AnankeWLF2022 Profile: Sabyn Javeri on Subverting Hegemonic Literary Traditions
Your novels Nobody Killed Her and Hijabistan have a powerful sense of breaking free from a cruel society of iron restrictions and constraints that have bound and chained people—mostly women throughout the years. Do tell us how your own life experiences found a way into your writing. Writing has always been a way to express...
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#AnankeWLF2022 Profile: Annie Zaidi on gender-based censorship, complicit silence & sly endorsements of violence
In one of your interviews, you spoke about the power of literature be it in its broadest sense newspapers and pamphlets or creative writing (novels etc.) in limited terms; and how it impacts society. While many students and wider communities alike are unlikely to read many literary works (speaking in relative terms), we are...
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#AnankeWLF2022 Profile: Mehr F Husain on Creating a Cycle of Sustainability
You’re an author and entrepreneur, two inspiring professions. Do tell us the journey of taking on two such difficult tasks, and whether one complemented the other. It was in 2018 after writing my book that I realized Pakistan’s local fabric was suffering, muslin in particular. I had finished writing and was feeling very empty. To...
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Sparking innovation via balanced and empathetic leadership
Tell us about yourself and your professional journey My journey counts three major stops: Casablanca – the native home, New York city – the tough love teacher, and Dubai – the nurturing space. With these three great cities, I am the product of the experiences that shaped me throughout this diverse journey, that was also...
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Enabling quality healthcare, education across the ME
Sonal Sachdev was born with a passion for healthcare and a flair for entrepreneurship as she followed in her fathers footsteps, starting at the bottom and learning the ropes to work her way up in the healthcare and education business to one of the most prominent women in the healthcare industry in the GCC and...
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Give A Child the Best Start in Life
Rana El Sakhawy is the founder and CEO of MonkiBox, an early learning platform that provides stage-based play tools and activities grounded in science and child-development research. On a mission to help parents feel confident and support their childs early development, Rana focuses on increasing awareness of the importance of the early years and advocating...
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Innovating the blend of perfection
Tell us a bit about yourself and the journey that led you to where you are now? Hello, my name is Laura, and I am the founder of BRW Society, a locally based, tea brand on a mission to get the UAE drinking better quality tea. I moved to Dubai in 2018 and straight away I felt that great quality tea was hard to come...
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Inspiring Innovation in the Legal Landscape
Tell us a bit about yourself and the journey that led you to where you are now? My name is Rima Mrad and I am a partner with BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates LLP, a regional law firm with our headquarters in DIFC. I am a corporate commercial lawyer specialising in M&A and regulatory...
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Spearheading Wholesome Goodness
Tell us a bit about yourself and the journey that led you to where you are now? I was born and brought up in Indias capital, New Delhi. I studied at the citys Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, followed by the University of Delhi where I got my undergraduate degree in Economics. From there, I went on...