ABC Saturday Afternoons, Australia

So this happened and I managed to not cut off any live interviews – always a bonus! Thanks to my endlessly patient and brilliant producer @desileary who makes it look so easy and reminds me to smile and breathe when it feels like I’m treading water. For the...

Penalties & Purpose

Tonight in Canberra at The #TuggeranongArtsCentre, I participated in a panel called ‘Penalties & Purpose’, as part of the centre’s ‘The Human Condition’ program.  The program comprises several projects that explore themes from ‘Another Day in Paradise’- a...

Activating Change from Within

Looking up to these two giants, Ali Ahmed and Ahmed Nur of the community sector, at the launch of the ‘Young Womens Leadership’ initiative of #YouthActivatingYouth, securing funding for a forthcoming round of fitness and mentoring activities for Muslim girls across...

Curious & Curiouser

Today I had the pleasure of a behind-the-scenes scoping of the almost completed installation of ‘Wonderland’. Billed as an ‘immersive exhibition that takes you down the rabbit hole’, this exhibition is scheduled to open April 5th and is an #ACMI commission that ticks...

Let Me Count the 1.6 Billion Ways…

At the ‘Ways to Be Muslim’ launch at the IMA tonight. An exhibition about ‘what being Muslim means to me’. Importantly, the motivation behind this showcase was to share hundreds of insights- by Muslims, for Muslims. In an era fixated with attending to public...