This interview is part of Ananke's special spotlight edition which can be viewed here. I would like to begin by you telling us about yourself who is Sally Mousa? I am an Iraqi-Australian international speaker and presenter, and someone who has been lucky enough to interview some of the most influential people in...
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Embedding Human Rights in Policy For Better Public Health Interventions
This interview is a part of Ananke's special spotlight edition celebrating The Fred Hollows Foundation's 30 years of change making. You can check out the magazine here. Brandon, you have unique role not just heading public policy and advocacy at the Fred Hollows Foundation you are also a stakeholder representing the vision...
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Aliya Rajah: On Empowerment Through Self Belief For Better Choices
Tell us about yourself and your professional journey. I was born and raised in the UK and have now been in the UAE for over four years. I am a personal and professional development coach, and qualified NLP and MBTI practitioner. I have a background in Biomedical Science and Public Health, and five years ago...
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Infusing Womens Advancement at Work
I would love to begin with you telling us a bit about yourself. Im originally from Canada, but I left home 25 years ago and never looked back. My hunger for doing my own thing took me around the world where I started multiple seven-figure businesses. My first foray was into PR and communications specialising...
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CaterpillHERs: Initiating A Transformative Movement for Women
Tell us about CaterpillHERs when and how was it launched? Hira: CaterpillHERs is a digital learning platform and accelerator that helps women build and scale their businesses and careers through cohort-based acceleration programs, 1:1 mentorship, and access to the community. It was launched in 2019 after I moved back to Pakistan from the US...
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AnankeWLF: Kehkashan Khalid on finding a hint of the fantastical in speculative fiction
You’re an artist, as well as a writer. How did these two professions complement each other for you? Do tell us about your journey in both. My art and my writing share a similar creative process. I start with the seed of an idea, I define which medium I want to narrate the story in,...
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Ananke WLF – Rohama Malik on the power of illustrated storytelling
You are a writer and an illustrator— two wonderfully complementary professions. Do tell us about your journey, the challenges, and what has kept you going. Ive been a bookworm since I was a child, very much the bringing a book to a wedding and sitting in the corner finishing it type of kid. In school...
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AnankeWLF: Sidra F Sheikh on Rediscovering the Self Through the Written Word
Do tell us about your writing journey. What drew you to this profession? I was the kind of child who always had her nose buried in a book, but the moment when words really came alive for me was when I started reading the Narnia series in the third grade. I just knew that I...
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#AnankeWLF2022 Usman T Malik on the idea of a lost past, knowledge of a broken present, and an uncertain future
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...