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🕌 British Shi'a ✍🏼 Film & TV Critic 🌸 Loveliest of tweets from a 'Quiz Show Doyenne' ⚡ C/OQL The Zoomsbury Group 🔬 @sheriffscience 💖 she/her 📸 Chlo

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Fatima
19 days
Speaking of! New tour guide date added! Learn about Black history and the deconstruction of Eurocentric artistic tradition via the art of Tavares Strachan and my rambling ⭐ Weds 31st July 2pm ⭐ Sat 3rd Aug 6pm ⭐ Sat 17th Aug 6pm ⭐ Weds 28th Aug 2pm
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19 days
The only way I could find a more court jester job is stealing the Sewing Bee Host job from Kiell, but he is doing a marvellous job
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6 months
Some absolutely 5 star cinema is streaming on BBC iPlayer rn, so go go go if you haven't seen them!
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4 years
Okay now *these reviews* make me want to watch Soul
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2 years
The moment that gong went 😅 #universitychallenge
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6 years
Idk what you sound like but my mind automatically substituted this tweet in particular with a John Mulaney voice for some reason
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6 years
you ever wish that fireworks were incredibly quiet and also didnt disappear so quickly and also you could keep them in your home and also you could hold them in your hands?? because if so, i’d love to introduce you to,, Flowers
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2 years
@been_herde @nehajay_ Why Chris Messina isn't one of The Chrises I'll never understand but I also enjoy him being safe from that mess
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4 years
@CuriousZelda spare poem for Suzie, my shouty crossword assistant?
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2 years
For those who don't know, I'm officially known as "poetry lady" at work (as well as the "smart one on UC") because I run little readings for residents, so to get this set in our final match was such a dream 🥰 #UniversityChallenge
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Fatima
10 years
@jk_rowling a valid question on Tumblr (credit to the urls/people) http://t.co/W8bfyaxxrC
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2 years
Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in! I am travelling so can't reply to everyone just yet but I just want to do an appreciation post for my team incl. Michael K on Zoom and my mother who came with me for emotional support to Salford 🥰💞
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1 year
She is perfect
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3 years
Always wanted to be a fancam! (But truly, I was so anxious this first match, I'm so glad I managed to smile and enjoy myself 💙)
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شهد
3 years
was a huge fan and still a huge fan of @reaffirmsfaith now kicking names and taking ass on #UniversityChallenge #fatimafanedit
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2 years
It's called charisma and enthusiasm, look it up x
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7 years
@Lin_Manuel I'm Biscuit Officer of my university Tea Society so thank you so much for satisfying my professional curiosity 😉
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2 years
Time travelling from a first round to the #UniversityChallenge Grand Final! Tune in at 8.30pm on BBC Two to see how we got on 📺✌🏼 but we all know who wins best dressed... ✨
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Fatima
4 years
and in the UK, it's on Prime under the name Crossing the Line!
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Film Daze
4 years
Friendly reminder that Little Woods, Nia DaCosta’s directorial debut starring Tessa Thompson and distributed by Neon is available on Hulu.
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4 years
Wonder Woman 3 after this rollercoaster of criticism but no Birds of Prey sequel is my villain origin story
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7 years
@HunterHex601 @Lin_Manuel I did a rousing speech bout how I love baking, keep up with biscuit news, have excellent taste n will strive to provide classics + variety 🍪
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3 years
@voteforhani Parasite (2019)
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3 years
Broke: Michael Mays is some kind of bigot Woke: He's just in love with Gilbert Bespoke: This is just how a team of specialists works and we have earpieces (and they're in love) #UniversityChallenge
If Mays went on Mastermind his specialist subject would be Jackson’s eyes #universitychallenge
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2 years
Dissertation submitted! 🎉🐠💝
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4 years
Wrote about the Oscars for the Independent! ✨
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Independent Voices
4 years
Parasite has changed the face of the Oscars – but the fight for film industry diversity doesn't end here | @reaffirmsfaith
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Fatima
4 months
In my best Elle Woods voice: ʷᵉ ᵈⁱᵈ ⁱᵗ ! 🫶🏼🏆✨️
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1 year
@sarahjaeleiber This is very sweet and I want to see this tote bag
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5 years
Reader, I am engaged ✨
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2 years
The faces of two art players who saw and loved Yinka Shonibare's library of immigrants at the Tate Modern but alas didn't look up his face 😔 #UniversityChallenge
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8 years
Remember when everyone was alive on Poe Party - good times, good times.
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5 years
Can't believe Abe became a critic. My future is in this and I feel seen.
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2 years
The next time someone asks me if we hate each other I'm just sweeping the leg and walking away. Yeah, obviously unadulterated loathing for the guys I won with! They're the worst!
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3 years
Final words on #UniversityChallenge so I can move on with my day but Michael Mays is delightful, I wouldn't choose anyone else as my captain and you can see us chat about strategies on where he turns and our specialisms here:
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Fatima
4 years
My plans 2020
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Fatima
5 years
I guess you could say that Hugh Grant went on a Huge Rant
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Hugh Grant
5 years
You will not fuck with my children’s future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend. Fuck off you over-promoted rubber bath toy. Britain is revolted by you and you little gang of masturbatory prefects.
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2 years
The rumours are true! I do know some science! I remember thinking just before this starter "each of the boys has gotten one, it's my turn" and then felt like a superhero #UniversityChallenge
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7 years
Happy Jane Austen on the £10 note day!
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1 year
🎂🎁 25 years and my life is still / Trying to get up that great big hill of hope / For a destination 🎁🎂
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Fatima
3 years
Read my first big blockbuster review!
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Little White Lies
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There’s just no stopping Florence Pugh... Read @reaffirmsfaith ’s review of Marvel’s #BlackWidow
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2 years
Oh how the turns tabled... 🤔
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Fatima
7 years
Honestly my ultimate dream would be to do English Lit at Emmanuel Cambridge and be good enough to be on their University Challenge team
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2 years
I officially have a degree with Merit! It has been a great two years and I've finally completed my dream course 🏅✨
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4 years
Got onto the Master's ✨ Science Communication at Imperial!
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3 years
@carisrianne What does "covering the bases of T and Q" even mean?? Bloody hell and good riddance
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2 years
Oh this one has made me cry
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Hitchin Library
2 years
Congratulations to @imperialcollege and especially long-time Hitchin Library user Fatima - #UniversityChallenge champions! All those books you borrowed clearly went to good use!📚 @reaffirmsfaith
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Fatima
8 years
Stalin went from Zain Malik to Luigi lol
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4 years
Got onto the Master's ✨ Science Communication at Imperial!
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1 year
Graduation sequel just dropped! Critics say "she looks lovely", "that girl is friend-shaped" and "FATIMA FAN CAM 🦀‼️" but it is too early to say if it has the makings of a trilogy 🎓
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Fatima
3 years
Alan Rickman did not say "I'm going to cut your heart out with a spoon!" and "Because it's dull you twit, it'll hurt more!" with his whole chest for the G*ardian to call this movie joyless
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JumpCut Online
3 years
ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES was released 30 years ago today!
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5 years
applied to my dream job! ✨ all prayers appreciated I will need them
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2 years
Love to be called a role model for my intelligence over my looks ❤️ yes I am a very smart Hijabi but I was also actively trying to be best dressed on University Challenge x
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Fatima
5 years
Graduands ✨
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Fatima
1 year
As we approach the next Grand Final of #UniversityChallenge , here is a little how it started vs. how it's going for you 🏆💙
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1 year
All the nasty comments about Ethan on University Challenge remind me that the audience of one of Britain's smartest shows are remarkable stupid and this has been the one of the only reasonable tweets
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@charlottes1993 Have you considered that he may be autistic, and that his hair pulling is stimming, necessary for him to cope with a high stress situation?
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4 years
My Spotify played the If Beale Street Could Talk soundtrack while I was reading Love in Colour @BeeBabs in the sun and I think I ascended 💓
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3 years
Film Twitter rite of passage ☑️
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3 years
Popped into Gay's the Word for some cards but I left with two books and I met Bimini from Drag Race? Wild
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4 months
But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Paddington is the sun.
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, game, or TV show until I forget: Day 1126
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2 years
Just remembered an iconic moment in buzzer practice where Conor started reading out a list of places, I could see Max start doing his trademark mental mapping and then I outbuzzed him because it was just the beginning of Kokomo by The Beach Boys
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2 years
@_haaniyah_ Old people are the only film critics I care about
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2 years
Sometimes I think about how the concept of me being Indian and Muslim and British truly broke these people
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Fatima
6 months
The LinkedIn friends saw this news already but tonight I have my first shift as a Hayward Gallery Assistant! The Forms! They're Coming Alive! 🎨💛
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2 years
How to look out for your Muslim friend this Ramadhan: ⭐ put up with the excitability ⭐ let them nap ⭐ yes "not even water" ⭐ send memes, especially cats being Muslim content ⭐ support Imperial on University Challenge for the last time. BBC2, Monday 4th April at 8.30pm x
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1 year
Eid Mubarak! I am finally wearing a fit with enough ✨️details✨️ to justify this filter 🌸
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3 years
The official Twitter keeps stealing my thunder but hi! I'm on University Challenge with my team tomorrow! Monday 13th, 8.30pm on BBC2. We trained entirely on Zoom for months beforehand so here are some of our best quizzical faces, I have two modes 🤔💙
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3 years
Mum's obligatory photoshoot because we just finished decorating the cake 🎂🎉
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5 years
FRIENDS! GOT A 2.1 IN BIOMED ✨
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4 years
A girl and her new plant ♥️🌿
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4 years
Here's the link to Varda's doc on the Black Panthers, it is half an hour and excellent. #BlackLivesMatters
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4 years
A slightly belated Eid look ✴️❤️▫️
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2 years
Sorry to womankind that I forgot the woman who famously said "Remember the Women!" #UniversityChallenge
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1 year
This Barbie is enjoying the weekend weather 🌸💓
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4 months
#EidMubarak from my mum's car - the pilgrimage of family feasting begins soon... ❤️ ✨️
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2 years
Celebrate your Valentine's Day with the love story of Imperial on #universitychallenge . Also featuring some intense quizzing as we take on the formidable Reading in our second quarterfinal. Next Monday the 14th at 8.30pm, BBC Two ❤️
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4 years
Taika dedicating his award to indigenous kids: "we we're the original storytellers" 🥰💓💞
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Fatima
2 years
(also before I forget, for all those interested, this is the top I wore in the final absolute bargain to feel like a sparkly quiz witch ✨)
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2 years
The Riddler:
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Jeff Craven
2 years
It has taken me 13 years to get 300 followers on Twitter. Here's how I did it 🧵
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7 years
@Lin_Manuel @HunterHex601 I even had a prickly question about whether Jaffa Cakes are cakes or biscuits in a debate with my opponent
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4 years
Mentally I'm here ❤️
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5 years
✨ Critics Advent Calendar ✨ We need more positivity to end the decade, so each day I'm going to tweet a writer and highlight a great piece they've written this year 🎄💗
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5 years
"Danvers’ arrogance isn’t the machismo arrogance that makes the world a little worse; it’s the opposite. She possesses a kind of radiant arrogance that makes the world a little brighter."
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SYFY WIRE
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Who knew arrogance could look so good? #CaptainMarvel
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2 years
@PuceCurses @pemberIeys Oh it is absolutely not an indictment on her more than the fact that there is realism and non-traditional happiness within these stories, not everyone is the protagonist
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5 years
@SofiaBNewman My love I am so very proud of you for standing up for her 💕 I'm sure I couldn't do the same and I appreciate you using your privilege to do so
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4 years
I recognised the voice of a minor character in Avatar: The Last Airbender and I'm sorry WHAT
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2 years
🚨 !! Not April Fool's Clickbait !! 🚨 ⚠️ IT IS HAPPENING ⚠️
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Imperial College London
2 years
Watch Fatima, Gilbert, Max and Michael in the #UniversityChallenge final (OMG, WE KNOW) on Monday 4 April at 8.30pm on @BBCTwo . They'll take on @UniofReading in what promises to be an epic match 🎉 Hey @UniofReading , good luck. You're going to need it 😘
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2 years
Character development is me not having any photos of myself pre-2015 because I didn't like my face, to getting a cute Twitter icon, to being on TV and loving my stupid expressions ♥️
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10 months
It was yesterday but happy two year anniversary to this moment! 🏆 I spent it quizzing and watching telly with my Michaels so not much has changed!
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Fatima
3 years
Love to log on after getting a terrific score only to see that my favourite people are being insulted for *checks notes* conferring on bonuses they know more about #UniversityChallenge
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Gilbert Jackson
3 years
We all have unique specialisms that we learn throughout the process. Sometimes different topics come up and others don’t. The pressure of being on National TV also greatly affects our performance. Can we live our dreams in peace without being hated for it?
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2 years
Happy #WorldHijabDay from me, I am at my most powerful 💫 Hire me, hang out with me, admire me, I am great 💖
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2 years
New Year, new thread! I'm turning 25 this year and I'm going to try and read 25 novels by women from my shelf that I've always wanted to read 📚
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4 years
Access to Angela Davis' writing here 👇🏽
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#StopCopCity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Are Prisons Obsolete - Abolition Democracy - Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Women, Race, and Class - Globalism and the Prison Industrial Complex -
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4 years
Wait did I miss my first pull quote oh my gosh
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4 years
"Breathtaking, healing journey" ★★★★ @LWLies Starring Henry Golding MONSOON is Streaming (UK & Ireland) NOW! #MonsoonFilm
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2 years
If you have to be clueless on national television then you might as well be cute
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3 years
*Insert Paul Rudd "Look at us" meme*
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2 years
Ran a tournament! Got to see these utter beauties of quizzers in action! Reunited some pals! People liked it!!
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Fatima
4 years
I thought this might have been photoshopped but 👏🏽👏🏽
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@HananyaNaftali
Hananya Naftali
4 years
The World Health Organization ( @WHO ), in its regional Coronavirus update, doesn’t recognise Israel as a country - the only Jewish state in the world. It calls my homeland “Occupied Palestinian Territory”, but it will never say that #Coronavirus is a Chinese virus. Shameful.
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1 year
Thinking about him* *Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wombat
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1 year
Warner Bros should let me go to the Barbie press event because it is a day before Muharram starts, and I've almost finished embroidering my fit 🌸🧵🪡
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5 years
It's #WorldHijabDay ! My time to shine! It's me! Your local Muslim critic 💖 I need to write more about it (commission me!) but in the mean time here's the piece I'm still so proud of
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4 years
Spotted a rather polite young bear eating marmalade sandwiches in Leicester Square ✨
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Fatima
5 years
GUYS WHY AREN'T WE YELLING ABOUT EMILIA THE PLAY IT WAS INCREDIBLE #IAmEmilia
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5 years
@PuceCurses @ianamurray All the editing choices were so cleverly juxtaposed!
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5 years
I met Richard E Grant on the Piccadilly line home. This is a lot.
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2 years
I am heading to Ziyarat in Iraq so I will pray for you all 💞 If I've ever upset you, I ask your forgiveness and I'll keep you in my duas x
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2 months
The dark side of the wardrobe will be expanding because my contract has been made permanent! Come see me give public tours at the Hayward Gallery with a renewed sense of job security xoxo
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2 months
All black dress code for work got me down until I realised this can include my We Are Lady Parts t-shirt so I win this round
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