Copywriter. Masters of Journalism from Carleton University. Former sub-editor at The Express Tribune. Bylines in Ottawa Citizen, Centretown News, AltMuslim, The Express Tribune, Dawn.
Business KPI- Equator case study - One Page version
A Summarized One-Page version of a case study highlighting how BusinessKPI helped Equator Coffee Roasters automate their data, save team time and gain holistic insights into profitability
Case Study: How BusinessKPI helped Equator Coffee Roasters automate their data, save over 30 hours of team time per month and gain holistic insights into profitability
A long-form narrative case study highlighting how BusinessKPI helped Equator Coffee Roasters automate their data, save team time and collect and understand important business metrics.
Client Success Story: How Hash Assad helped Batcha Mohamed meet his financial goals, feel a sense of ease about his finances and find time and resources for the things that matter to him
A Client Success Story highlighting how this financial advisor helped his client manage his finances, invest in a halal way and achieve his dreams. I managed the entire project from scheduling client interviews, writing the case study, revisions, edits, designing an on-brand PDF document and getting approvals.
Case Study: How Aisha Khaja helped Nisa Homes win over $640k in grants, stop relying solely on community donations and kickstart their grants program to expand and sustain their operations
A case study highlighting how my client helped a charity win grants from the Canadian government and expand and sustain their operations. I managed the entire project from scheduling client interviews, writing the case study, revisions and edits, designing and getting approvals.
Client Success Story: How Hash Assad helped Monique Foltinek plan for an early retirement and feel a sense of freedom and security
A Client Success Story highlighting how this financial advisor helped his client plan an early retirement and achieve her dreams. I managed the entire project from scheduling client interviews, writing the case study, revisions, edits, designing an on-brand PDF document and getting approvals.
Case study in an email sequence: How Jessica grew her investments to $10k
A case study I wrote part of a longer evergreen email sequence for this course creator highlighting the success of one her students. I interviewed some of her students and included their stories and experiences in the email sequence which was written in her tone and voice and included some of her own stories and content.
The little festival that did
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For the Ottawa dragon boats that glide through the placid waters of the Rideau River each summer, the beginning was modest. The festival that attracts 190 teams, about 5,000 paddlers, more than 85,000 spectators and top entertainment acts began at a small meeting in Mont Tremblant, Que., in the fall of 1993.
When the small group of Hong Kong Canada Business Association directors discussed the idea in their annual retreat in the Laurentian Mountains, they had no drummers ...
Taking the pain out of labour
Mother-to-be Rhiannon Andrews ignored the slight cramp in her belly as she was preparing for bed. A week past her due date and expecting her first child, she awoke the next morning to a similar sensation, but carried on with her day. Heeding the advice of her midwife and doula, the 33-year-old relied on relaxation techniques as her labour pains began.
The next day, she felt a tightening of her uterus, but visited a golf exhibition with her husband followed by a two-hour walk along Dow’s Lake ...
From an idea to a podcast topping the charts – Cadar Mohamud from The Digital Sisterhood shares her journey
An interview-based feature on an inspiring Muslim community member whose podcast went from just an idea to top of the charts in just two short years.
Towards a cleaner Karachi
An edited version of this article was published in Newsline, August 2008.
Heaps of solid waste lie open in vacant plots, streets and waterways of the city of Karachi. Distraught citizens pass by scrunching up their faces, pinching their nostrils and holding their breaths. But this waste poses more than just an eyesore and a source of stench in their streets. It has significant environmental and public health impacts in the form of diseases resulting from human or animal contact to the waste w...
Home is where the school is
While harried moms in her neighbourhood rush to pack off their kids to school every morning, Sadaf Farooqi’s day starts on a relaxed note. Her six-year-old daughter A’isha Irfan rises early, makes her own breakfast and starts the day by unleashing her creativity using pencils, colours, water colours, scissors and paper. A’isha later switches to reading one of the books from her curriculum set, going to her mother for questions whenever she feels the need. Her four-year-old brother Abdullah Ir...
A trip back to naani’s storytime
KARACHI: Visitors, young and old alike, to the ‘Khail Khail Mein’ story-telling session held at the Karachi Literature Festival on Sunday got a dose of nostalgia as the now near-extinct grandmother’s storytime was enacted.
Little children between the ages of four to 14 sat enthralled, some cross-legged and others on their shins, on the carpet in front of the stage as three prominent children’s writers read out their stories. Other children chose to sit on the chairs with their parents or squi...
Save a life: Clock ticking for 3-year-old in need of stem cell donor
KARACHI: A Pakistani family from New York has two weeks to search for a bone marrow donor for their three-year-old son Rayan who has been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a form of blood cancer which causes damage and death by crowding out normal cells in the bone marrow.
The Shers have come all the way to Karachi because people of South Asian genetic backgrounds are underrepresented in the US Bone Marrow Donor Registry. An appeal was launched across the US to encourage South Asia...
AKU lecture series: Humanitarian calls for a ‘bloody revolution’
KARACHI:
When you hear calls for a revolution from the most humanitarian of philanthropists in the country, you know for sure that the revolution narrative has seeped deep into the public psyche. Abdul Sattar Edhi, who was introduced by the host as a “welfare state in and of himself”, stressed the need for a bloody revolution to set things right in the country.
Edhi, the founder of Pakistan’s largest welfare foundation, was speaking on Thursday at the Aga Khan University in a special lecture ...
Good times: Port Grand finally makes a grand opening
KARACHI:
The whiff of putrid sea air that hits you as you near the entrance of the highly anticipated Port Grand Food and Entertainment Complex is forgotten once you step inside the metal gate. The newest addition to Karachi’s nightlife promises to offer visitors a world of its own in an enclosed area cut off from the craziness of city life.
“A lot of people thought this was going to be another Burns Road, but this is a different cup of tea all together,” said Managing Director Shahid Firoz o...