Defense of The Arts Streamers

It baffles me how equation-solvers and machine-operators can still sneer at those whose words hold the power to control and shape the opinion of the world. Books of every genre and subject are written by capable writers who have good command of the language. You number-crunchers learned through books, through someone’s ability to convey their…

“Why Settle for Less When We Can Have More”

* This was written for our spoken word performance at Mercy Mission's Being ME (Muslimah Empowered) Conference 2013. Script written by myself and Mubina Shafqat Ali. “You had me at Salaam” she wrote It was an innocent “Assalamu alaykum ukhteeee” Which turned out to be not so innocent In the lines that precede it “May…

Lessons from Facebook

I created my Facebook account a few years back when I was in highschool. Then I was using MySpace (*cringe), so my FB account was sort of dead for about a year and a half. I had no clue how to use it; it was small in format compared to MySpace, it had something called…