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  • News to share. So exciting! Dreams do come true…📖 👀

    News to share. So exciting! Dreams do come true…📖 👀

    Hey Salaams lovely readers, I’m so excited to announce that I have been selected, after an informal chat held on the phone from the USA (🤩), to be a Creative Non Fiction Reader for the Mud Season Review. This is an Art and Literature journal which states: MISSION We seek to celebrate the full process…

  • A Recipe: Curry – A Cold Remedy

    A Recipe: Curry – A Cold Remedy

    Salaams, This is a recipe that I’ve written down a few times and each time I’ve managed to lose it. It’s a family home made natural recipe for a cold and as far as I know it doesn’t exist on the internet. I just want to say thanks to my lovely sister in law who…

  • Fiction: Yes, She Was Different

    Fiction: Yes, She Was Different

    Yes, She Was Different All she wanted was to be treated as a human. When Leila’s face was covered they turned away. The invisible woman. When her head was covered, a passenger in a nondescript white van shouted out of his window, tyres hissing in the rain. He spat at her whilst driving by, leaving…

  • A quick note on Instagram

    A quick note on Instagram

    Hey salaams lovely people, I don’t know if you’re aware but I’ve started sharing little tidbits of info on Instagram. This is because I find it a very easy platform to navigate when I haven’t got a whole lot to share but might like to share a picture or two for the day…so why don’t…

  • A Recipe: I made Jordanian Mansaf 😋!

    A Recipe: I made Jordanian Mansaf 😋!

    Many moons ago when I first got married, my husband took me on a trip to a foreign land. It was the first time I’d been anywhere apart from Pakistan or Saudi Arabia (I was very lucky to have made my first umrah trip just a year before) and I was really excited. I didn’t…

  • Eid Mubarak 😁 Well done those of you who stayed at home! 🏠

    Eid Mubarak 😁 Well done those of you who stayed at home! 🏠

    Assalam alaikum everyone! Eid Mubarak! I hope you all had a fab Eid inshaAllah. I’m sorry if I offend anyone in this post but I just think it’s an important message to send out. I know for some of us it was hard to stay away from loved ones but for those of you who…

  • Avicenna – An important message to heed

    Avicenna – An important message to heed

    Hopefully many of you have heard of Avicenna. He was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Avicenna, known as Ibn Sinna in the Arab World, is also known as “the most influential…

  • Book coming soon!!

    Book coming soon!!

    Are you looking for an inspirational book that will help you to navigate the ups and downs of life a little better? Buy my book here!

  • A Wake-Up Call: The Coronavirus 🦠

    A Wake-Up Call: The Coronavirus 🦠

      Dear readers, I hope you’re all well and in the best state of imaan inshaAllah! What a crazy turn of events we’ve had to witness over the last few weeks. Let’s just look at all the changes that have occurred since last time I wrote to you all. An international emergency has been declared…

  • Forest School Update

    Forest School Update

    Hello and Salaams (peace!), This is a post that I will try to regularly update with all the excellent work we’ve been doing at our primary school to increase the awareness of the benefits of Outdoor Learning. We have already managed to make a huge difference in the land next to our school. The story…