Author: yanakazman
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The People Project: Fatma Al Baiti
Fatma. Yemen. Foodie. Friend. Passion. The heart and mind behind ‘Meet Me at Fatma’s’, London’s first Yemeni pop-up brunch’ I first met Fatma when many years ago during our Global Village program in Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. It’s been so long, but If I could have one word to describe my fondest memory of Fatma during the…
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THE ROCKSTAR
Rauf is 2! After bouncing off ideas on how to have his birthday party this year, we decided to cancel it and have makan makan with our families instead. As much as I was tempted to have a petting zoo and a pool party and people dressed up as Big Bird and Elmo and a…
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Home
Finding old pictures feels like discovering forgotten treasures. I was cleaning my laptop and had the urge of going through my old photos. It’s kinda sad that we don’t print and keep them in albums like how our parents used to. Going through the pictures made me realise how much I miss using my old…
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THE HOPE BAZAAR 12/1/19
Since school, I’ve always known that my friends are giving and selfless. But when they told us that they started tutoring Rohingya refugees, it became even easier to love and respect them even more! My amazing amazing amazing friends are organising a fundraiser this weekend for a refugee school who have recently lost their funding.…
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The Clean Up
Ever since my grandfather got sick, we started cleaning his room to make sure that nothing gets in his way and to throw whatever that is not needed anymore. Being a lawyer in his mid 80’s, you can imagine the amount of documents and files there were in his room. Every time we were done…
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