My academic training is in economics. I hold a bachelor’s degree in economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan, and an MSc in Economic Development from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. These studies gave me a language for understanding systems, growth, and power — but not certainty.
My writing sits at the intersection of economic thought, culture, women, society, and the environment. I write slowly and independently, drawing from lived experience, sustained inquiry, and research, without the urgency to arrive at fixed conclusions.
I am less interested in answers than in how questions evolve over time — how perspectives shift, assumptions are unsettled, and complexity resists neat resolution. I am drawn to how matters unfold, because in their unfolding they often mirror who we are and how we have learned to see the world.
For this reason, my writing does not arrive at conclusions.
I was born and raised as an expat in Qatar and am a citizen of Pakistan. I live between places, questions, and ways of seeing — an experience that continues to shape how I observe the world and write about it.
Alongside my essays, I read widely and reflect on books through Books, Life & Society, where reading becomes a way of thinking about the world rather than escaping it.
This site is not a portfolio or a platform.
It is an archive of thought — open, unfinished, and attentive.
Photography by: Alicja Kalinska Photography