My origin story begins here.

My writing career took off when I worked as a staff reporter for Mic, the Independent, and then as a freelancer for some of the most trusted names in journalism like the Washington Post, the Atlantic, HuffPost, the Intercept, and the New Republic. I mainly covered stories involving politics, religion, national security, race, and immigration, and where they all intersect.

Naturally curious, I find great thrill in venturing into the unknown. So far, I've traveled to Myanmar and Thailand to meet with democracy activists and examine the Rohingya conflict firsthand; Saudi Arabia to meet with housewives, working women, and Muslim pilgrims; Morocco to hear from the Atlas Mountains’ Amazigh population about their fight against systemic oppression and for cultural preservation; and Germany to learn from champions of press freedom.

I also got to interview heads of state, pop culture icons, and some very cool and inspiring people. You may recognize some of them: Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Noam Chomsky, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Reza Aslan, W. Kamau Bell, John Oliver, Donald Glover, Russell Simmons, Vic Mensa and T.I.

As a journalist, I love writing vigorously-reported and impassioned stories about greed, corruption, and conflict, and how they affect ordinary people in this world. It’s what keeps me going.

[NEW REPUBLIC] Emmanuel Macron’s Anti-Terror Law Is a Throwback to the Bad Days of Colonialism

[THE INTERCEPT] Hundreds of Travelers Had Their Global Entry Airport Privileges Revoked - Lawyers Say It's Another Muslim Ban

[THE WASHINGTON POST] Why Doesn't the Muslim Community Look Up To Its Black Celebrities?

[SPLINTER] The Misunderstood Beauty of Allahu Akbar

[HUFFPOST] Interview with Julian Assange

[HUFFPOST] Ted Cruz: “I’m not all that conservative”

[TEENVOGUE] How Donald Trump’s Defense of White Supremacists Puts National Security at Risk

[TEENVOGUE] This Is Why Repaying Student Loans Might Be Harder if You’re a Minority

[TEENVOGUE] How Terrorism and Islamophobia Take a Mental Toll on Muslims

[REFINERY29] The Amazing Music Scene You Have Never Heard Of Is In The “Seattle Of Israel”

[REFINERY29] Interview with Iranian Journalist Maziar Bahari

[VICE] What President Obama Can Do to Combat Environmental Racism

[VICE] How America's Muslims Have Handled 15 Years of Post-9/11 Islamophobia

[THE INDEPENDENT] Jamal Khashoggi murder: US State Department bans 16 Saudi nationals from entering country over journalist's death

[THE INDEPENDENT] White House whistleblower says senior Trump officials overturned 25 security clearance denials

[THE INDEPENDENT] Kris Kobach: Trump contender for immigration tsar suggests creating 'camps' for asylum seekers

[THE INDEPENDENT] Puerto Rico Governor to Trump: 'I'll punch the bully in the mouth’

[THE INDEPENDENT] Who is Adam Schiff and why does Donald Trump want him to resign?

[SLATE] More Republicans Support Same-Sex Marriage Than You Think

[SLATE]  “Transgender Today” Calls Trans Allies to Listen

[SLATE] Marco Rubio Adds Fuel to the Christian Persecution Complex

[SLATE] The Best Teen Movie Ever Made About Cyberbullying? The Duff.

[SLATE] That Radical Cleric in USA Today Is Absolutely Wrong About Islam and Blasphemy

[THE ATLANTIC] Report: Gaza Will Be Uninhabitable In Five Years

[THE ATLANTIC] The Freddie Gray Pre-Trial Begins

[MIC] Interview with Vic Mensa

[MIC] Interview with Reza Aslan

[MIC] Interview with W. Kamau Bell

[MIC] Interview with George Takei

[MIC] We Need To Rethink Celebrity Gawking Culture

[MIC] Trump's Muslim ban has trapped this Yemeni mother in a home destroyed by airstrikes

[MIC] Abdul El-Sayed, a doctor from Detroit, could be America's first Muslim governor

[MIC] Trump's Muslim ban is keeping a green card holder stuck in Iran away from his kids

[MIC] Immigration to the US: Fact-Checking Conservative Scare Tactics

[MIC] Melania and Ivanka Trump's Vatican trip unveils Europe's biases against Muslim women

[MIC] Meet the activists fighting to save Tennessee's children from "Islamic indoctrination"

[MIC] A Minnesota mosque was bombed — and America’s failed anti-extremism policies are to blame

[MIC] How the media covers “honor killings” reveals a double standard against women of different religions

[MIC] I fell for a right-wing hoax. Then I called the guy who pranked me.