A Long Petal in the Sea

This year I’ve been reading a lot of books on immigration. Displacement and immigration has always fascinated me ever since I moved halfway across the world exactly 3 years ago. The fact that people are endlessly moving and finding new opportunities for a better life, or escaping life threatening situations, there are many reasons that …

Books For the Curious Muslim

This post took longer than expected for me to write. As much as I wanted to immediately inform people of these amazing books I've read, something always got in the way of me sitting down and actually writing this post. Maybe it was work and personal life, or maybe I wasn't fully ready to acknowledge …

How a Pandemic Made Me Buy a Kindle…

Long story short, I was desperate for new reads. And given how I had finished all the physical books I borrowed from my local library before the pandemic changed our lives and confined it to indoors, I needed more reading options. With the local library closed and bookstores taking weeks to ship a book to …

6 Self Development Books That Helped Me Grow

It is a universally acknowledged truth that we are all flawed human beings. With that comes the realisation that for the most part, we can be better. My interest in self development books started from back in college where I started reading more books about mental health and obtaining self-help. There were so many books, even …

Books I’ve Read in Isolation

Just like everyone else, I've been in isolation since the COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives as we knew it. While it was challenging in the beginning to adapt to a whole new working situation, after 9 weeks of working from home and spending 99% of those weeks on my own, I realised self isolation didn't …