It was barely a month after I had left for Istanbul, chasing an exciting, new career, when I ended up back home, to the joy and surprise of my family. And I found myself lost – I had no job and no idea what I was going to do next. And then the guidance of […]

Istanbul, 2017 I decided I wanted to do something different with my life. I was tired of working in the legal field, and so I enrolled for a TEFL course to teach English as a foreign language. And then I decided it might be a good idea to teach in a foreign country to gain

‘I’m going to write your story’. Yaseen was sitting on the hospital bed after a treatment session when I made him the offer. Granted I’m not a brilliant writer, but I figured what I lacked in skills, his amazing story would make up for in content. At that moment I didn’t know that Allah (SWT)