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    Work with me/Podcast: the 3 year rule, finding the right people, Miyazaki films

    November 23, 2019 /

    Hope you enjoyed working with me. Here’s some of my other flower walls I’ve done:

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  • Blog,  snapchat chronicles

    No Way Hoze.

    November 15, 2019 /

    I feel like I can only rock glasses if, and only if, I beat my face to death

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  • Blog,  Jummah Reflections

    We Don’t Need Anyone But Us

    November 15, 2019 /

    I’m sure you’ve guys heard about the floods happening in Beledweyne. I don’t need to add to the hundreds of pictures online showing the damages or people waist-deep in water. I do want to share an image that really moved me, taken in Garowe: I admire this man so much. And anyone in Garowe, or other parts of Somalia that are investing their time, money, and resources to help their own. May Allah reward them. Being educated in the west came with a lot of conceptions I am working actively to unlearn. One of them being that there needs to be some sort of western entity, whether a non-profit organization or…

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  • Blog,  review,  video

    My Book: Tawwakul for Children & why I wrote it

    November 8, 2019 /

    Super long overdue but I kind of wanted to talk about this book more in detail and share my little story on how it came to be. Sorry for the audio & video issues at the end, I was too close to the camera so the audio messes up as I moved around, and I kept bumping into it.

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  • Blog,  snapchat chronicles

    If Glitter was a Night

    November 6, 2019 /

    It would be this photo

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  • Blog,  personal

    What This Bag Taught Me

    November 1, 2019 /

    You guys I really really love this bag. I bought it a couple of years ago, and when I say I got roasted for it… lawd, I really did. Deep down I enjoyed the attention, but besides that, I think the reason this bag made me so happy (besides the fact that it’s cute) was because it was one of the first things I added to my closet that reminded me of me. And I don’t mean ‘me’ as in who I was- but the version of me I had in my head. I hope you understand what I mean. I think all of us, at one point, had this…

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  • Poems

    Tawwakul, For Children

    October 29, 2019 /

    ` I am Yusuf in the well

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  • Poems

    My Remedy

    October 29, 2019 /

    ` I use to care about the books I wrote in, If they were shiny, new and crisp

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  • Poems,  the homemade remedy

    She’ll Paint Her Path to Jannah

    October 29, 2019 /

    ` There are more than a million different combinations of deeds you can do to earn a house in Jannah, I want to do it through my passions

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  • Poems,  the homemade remedy

    Declaration of Independence

    October 29, 2019 /

    ` This is a declaration of independence

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