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Tell us about yourself and your professional journey. I was born and raised in the UK and have now been in the UAE for over four years. I am a personal and professional development coach, and qualified NLP and MBTI practitioner. I have a background in Biomedical Science and...
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I would love to begin with you telling us a bit about yourself. I’m originally from Canada, but I left home 25 years ago and never looked back. My hunger for doing my own thing took me around the world where I started multiple seven-figure businesses. My first foray...
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Tell us about CaterpillHERs – when and how was it launched? Hira: CaterpillHERs is a digital learning platform and accelerator that helps women build and scale their businesses and careers through cohort-based acceleration programs, 1:1 mentorship, and access to the community. It was launched in 2019 after I moved...
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You’re an artist, as well as a writer. How did these two professions complement each other for you? Do tell us about your journey in both. My art and my writing share a similar creative process. I start with the seed of an idea, I define which medium I...
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You are a writer and an illustrator— two wonderfully complementary professions. Do tell us about your journey, the challenges, and what has kept you going. I’ve been a bookworm since I was a child, very much the ‘bringing a book to a wedding and sitting in the corner finishing...
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Do tell us about your writing journey. What drew you to this profession? I was the kind of child who always had her nose buried in a book, but the moment when words really came alive for me was when I started reading the Narnia series in the third...
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You have been writing for several years — since 2012 — if I’m not mistaken, even before your debut book ‘Midnight Doorways’. How has the journey been? Like most writers, I have been closet-writing since I was a child. My first publication was a Letter to the Editor of...
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Your novels Nobody Killed Her and Hijabistan have a powerful sense of breaking free from a cruel society of iron restrictions and constraints that have bound and chained people—mostly women throughout the years. Do tell us how your own life experiences found a way into your writing. Writing has...
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In one of your interviews, you spoke about the power of literature – be it in its broadest sense newspapers and pamphlets or creative writing (novels etc.) in limited terms; and how it impacts society. While many students and wider communities alike are unlikely to read many literary works...
Tell us about yourself and your professional journey. I was born and raised in the UK and have now been in the UAE for over four years. I am a personal and professional development coach, and qualified NLP and MBTI practitioner. I have a background in Biomedical Science and...
I would love to begin with you telling us a bit about yourself. I’m originally from Canada, but I left home 25 years ago and never looked back. My hunger for doing my own thing took me around the world where I started multiple seven-figure businesses. My first foray...
Tell us about CaterpillHERs – when and how was it launched? Hira: CaterpillHERs is a digital learning platform and accelerator that helps women build and scale their businesses and careers through cohort-based acceleration programs, 1:1 mentorship, and access to the community. It was launched in 2019 after I moved...
You’re an artist, as well as a writer. How did these two professions complement each other for you? Do tell us about your journey in both. My art and my writing share a similar creative process. I start with the seed of an idea, I define which medium I...
You are a writer and an illustrator— two wonderfully complementary professions. Do tell us about your journey, the challenges, and what has kept you going. I’ve been a bookworm since I was a child, very much the ‘bringing a book to a wedding and sitting in the corner finishing...
Do tell us about your writing journey. What drew you to this profession? I was the kind of child who always had her nose buried in a book, but the moment when words really came alive for me was when I started reading the Narnia series in the third...
You have been writing for several years — since 2012 — if I’m not mistaken, even before your debut book ‘Midnight Doorways’. How has the journey been? Like most writers, I have been closet-writing since I was a child. My first publication was a Letter to the Editor of...
Your novels Nobody Killed Her and Hijabistan have a powerful sense of breaking free from a cruel society of iron restrictions and constraints that have bound and chained people—mostly women throughout the years. Do tell us how your own life experiences found a way into your writing. Writing has...
In one of your interviews, you spoke about the power of literature – be it in its broadest sense newspapers and pamphlets or creative writing (novels etc.) in limited terms; and how it impacts society. While many students and wider communities alike are unlikely to read many literary works...
