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Most of my content creation these days is writing newsletters to clients. As newsletters are becoming business models on their own, more and more brands are investing in them. The good news is that businesses are constantly looking for experienced writers to create them. I love writing newsletters because they combine creative writing, curation, and […]

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Remembering the very first book you have ever read might be impossible. Not for me. I do remember. I remember the first book I read. The very first book I read in English, a language that is not mine. The book was Super Fudge by Judy Blume. A second-hand copy was brought to me by […]

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In 2018, my short story Ustaz Ali won third prize at the prestigious F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival. Today I decided to “pick myself,” as Seth Godin says, cut the gatekeepers, and publish the story on Gumroad. The story is set at a Catholic School in Amman, Jordan, in the late eighties. Two friends, one […]

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I have been procrastinating in writing this article for a while. No one to blame but me. Inertia takes the best of me sometimes. Today I have finally decided to go ahead and eat that live frog and finally do what I preach. After reading the classic productivity book Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy […]

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I have been procrastinating in writing this article for a while. No one to blame but me. Inertia takes the best of me sometimes. Today I have finally decided to go ahead and eat that live frog and finally do what I preach. After reading the classic productivity book Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy […]

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David Perell never forgets a story. This prolific online writer captures and records, and then writes his viral essays. The first time I heard about the concept of writing from abundance was from Perell on a podcast in which he talked about how he would have all of these ideas for stories when he lived in […]

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Would you believe me if I told you a YouTuber from London who is twenty years my junior changed my life?  His name is Ali Abdaal, and his impact on my life goes beyond the productivity tips he discusses on his YouTube channel. His golden rule, “Journey before destination,” taught me to fully embrace my […]

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Today I’m going to tell you about what I see as the biggest fraud of the writing journey. It is a conniving scheme that still exists, and no one bothers to stop it.  Not even the US’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. They are all oblivious! It’s a hoax orchestrated by writers against writers, a devious […]

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John Lennon imagined a world with no countries or religions; I’m imagining a world where my Arab homeland has no hymens. No, this is not a typo. It’s that hymen. That sacred membrane that marks a woman’s virginity. That revered tissue, which unleashes wars, triggers tribal disputes, and breaks families. That part of a woman’s […]

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Science fiction is not a genre I enjoy much, but Klara and the Sun by Noble Prize winner Kashu Ishiguro is one of the books that will stay with me for a long time. It’s a story told from the perspective of an artificial intelligence machine (AI) called Klara who was assigned to keep the […]

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