Last Thursday marked my long-awaited graduation ceremony which ended up coinciding with my birthday. The one thing I realised about graduation is that graduation is like looking into a kaleidoscope, it’s all full of pictures that are jumbled together, and it is these pictures that make up the memories of my life. These are the […]

Eid Al-Fitr is due to be celebrated this weekend, subject to the sighting of the new moon. Unfortunately, this year, it won’t be possible to mark Eid in the usual way as congregational prayers in mosques and parks and parties with friends and wider family can’t happen at the moment. Instead Muslims are being encouraged […]

As the world struggles to fight COVID-19, many are destined to die alone, as I write this, my own family have lost 4 members from the extended family, and due to the government recommendations of staying indoors has meant that I’ve not managed to attend any of the funerals. It’s upsetting that this epidemic has […]

Today, marks the end of one era and the beginnings of another, the lives of the newly graduated students will begin to take on different routes. Some of those routes will be a first glimpse of reality while for others it’ll mark the return into education. It was Charles Dickens who once said that “The […]

My first post ever!!!