United Kingdom
🌏 Freelance Multimedia Journalist specialising in Faith, Travel and Diaspora Culture 💼 2024 Hyphen-Aziz Foundation Editorial Fellow 📰 Former Intern at The Guardian, Middle East Eye and Islam Channel 🎓 MA Magazine Journalism Graduate at City University 🎥 Digital Creator @aminiarchives | @budget.backpackers 🤝🏽 Volunteer with Afghan Academy International | Advisory Board Member for The Afghanistan Society 💻 Previously: Web Editor at Unorthodox Travel Travel Writer at The Happiness Function, Kated and Elite Voyage Social Media Lead for Untold Narratives and The Neurodiverse Media Community 🗣 Languages: Fluent - English and Dari Basic Conversational - German and Spanish Currently Learning - Arabic
• Spent time working across Digital, G2 Features, Opinion, Travel, Environment & Observer News. • Conducted interviews, completed news story assignments, and published multiple articles. • Successfully pitched first-person and feature stories across a number of desks.
• Spent two weeks with the Video team, mainly working on The Big Picture Podcast. • Successfully pitched, presented and produced a short-form video package for company's social media, as well as a profile feature for the website's Discover section.
• Spent time working across Production and Digital. • Responsibilities included guest production for channel’s live news segment, crafting VT scripts for broadcast, creating and editing piece-to-camera videos and voiceovers, and writing feature articles.
• Working with platform as a freelance writer, pitching and crafting listicles as well as SEO articles • Also taken on a part-time editor role, assisting with updating existing content on client’s website