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    The Next Generation: Karishma Leckraz won’t stop until the beauty industry embraces all skin

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    The Next Generation: Pritt is music’s rising star with a Tamil twist

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    The Next Generation: Efrem Damiani is “Queering the Middle East,” one design at a time

Posted on 26th Sep 202124th Apr 2022

Yahya Mahayni returned to acting to play a human canvas in “The Man Who Sold His Skin”

As the tired saying goes, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest feature film, “The Man Who Sold His Skin” takes this trope and…

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Posted on 1st Sep 202125th Feb 2022

Sara Jafari takes on sexuality, addiction, and Muslim guilt in “The Mismatch”

Coming of age stories broadly follow the same exhausted arc: protagonists discovering themselves through sex and narcotics, neatly slotted into the Lynx or Impulse wearing teenage years, before arriving at…

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Posted on 26th Apr 202116th Jun 2021

I tried TikTok’s self-care challenge for a week and now it’s a habit for life

Last year, I was convinced that TikTok was for children. I had conversations about how annoying the app was and that I’d die before ever using the platform myself. Alive…

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Posted on 6th Mar 20216th Mar 2021

Saying goodbye to my grandfather, three years after his death

I hadn’t spent as much time with my grandfather as I would have liked to before he passed away. I was three years old when my family moved from Pakistan…

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Posted on 10th Feb 2021

The military coup in Myanmar is terrible for the Rohingya

The saying goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. In Myanmar, the government is learning a different lesson: allying with the military junta is a double-edged sword, and…

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Posted on 5th Jan 202125th Feb 2022

The Modern Maharajah: getting personal with HUNGAMA’s Ryan Lanji

When I place the crown on Ryan Lanji’s head before we start shooting, he assures me of one thing: “I always give good head,” he jokes, flashing me a Colgate…

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Posted on 21st Dec 202021st Dec 2020

The ultimate last-minute beauty Christmas gift guide for 2020

It’s impossible to compile a Christmas gift guide without mentioning the yoyo lockdown we’re all currently facing. While I did try my very best to omit the L word for…

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Posted on 18th Dec 202019th Dec 2020

This is What an Iraqi Looks Like: the new web series by HAJER

When Baghdad Central aired at the start of this year, Iraqi viewers across the globe tuned in with hopes of seeing their culture and motherland represented on screen. Instead, the…

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