I have been blessed enough to attend writing conferences such as Muslim Literary Festival where I met amazing Muslim authors such as Uzma Jalaluddin. Since my particular interests are in Islamic history and folklore, I especially love to read and write historical fantasy stories!

For my Honours thesis, I wanted to centre Muslim voices. This is why I composed a creative project about Fatima Al-Fihri, the woman who opened the first university in the world in 9th-century Fez, Morocco. As somebody who loves academics, she is a huge inspiration to me.

Though my mother read the Thousand and One Nights to me as a child, I never had the opportunity to study them in my literature classes. This is what led me to write a retelling of my favourite story, Sinbad the Sailor, which turned into my current #amquerying novel.

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