Armani Syed
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Reporter @TIME focused on global culture and SWANA communities – armani.syed @time .com.
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“Poetry can’t stop a bullet. Poetry won’t free a prisoner. [...] But if we can’t imagine a free liberated world in language, how can we build one?” My latest feature on the long standing role of Palestinian poetry as a means of peaceful resistance.
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Guys Riz Ahmed posted my article on his Instagram story I am honestly done.
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Exactly a year after leaving my corporate job to pursue journalism, I'm happy to be joining the
@thisisinsider
team on Monday! 📰🎉
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The Left really, really do detest Tory Cabinet ministers. There fixed it for you Sajid bhai, say salaam to your ammi for me x
The Left really, really do detest ethnic-minority Tory Cabinet ministers.
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The author photo The Bookseller will use if anyone ever gives me a book deal x
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✨Elated to be joining
@TIME
tomorrow as a reporter focusing on world affairs. Among other topics, I'm hoping to add to the publication's coverage of global culture ✨
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My friend told me he has TWO cousins on both sides of the family?? I have 17 just in the UK 🤔
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Warwick practically has their own version of the HOLLYWOOD sign for graduation and this is the level of extra that I live for.
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So pleased to have written something centering Muslim women's joy and empowerment.
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“You know, as a child, you may remember an imaginary friend, but mine was my father” - for
@galdemzine
I wrote about the oral history project
@TapeLetters
that documents the messages Pakistani migrants who came to Britain would send to loved ones back home
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I spent an hour talking to
@sana2
yesterday, hours after she received a letter confirming that her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah, an Egyptian activist who was observing a hunger and water strike, is alive. Our conversation resulted in this very honest Q&A.
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The Indian woman pretending she wrote Emily in Paris is the only thing giving me life
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This show still lives rent free in my mind - what an odd concept.
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‼️ It's my last day at
@thisisinsider
today after over a year and a half as a fellow and then a junior reporter, covering lifestyle and royals. To mark the occasion, here's a message I sent to my editor the day I resigned (a day before the Queen did in fact die.) ‼️
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Digital magazine editors rejecting a pitch vs national newspaper editors rejecting a pitch:
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It's very telling and relevant that they waited until dark to do this. That's precisely what women are telling you to stop doing, preying on them under the cover of darkness because you think you can get away with more.
Are the police fuckIng stupid?
One of their own has been charged with an evil, horrific murder and they’re they’re now battling, kettling and confronting women.
Very wrong.
#ReclaimTheseStreets
#ClaphamCommon
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Why is it the writers who heavily brand themselves on feminism who end up having the most reductive definitions of womanhood and gender identity pls?
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Non-Muslim friends who ask you to dinner during Ramadan and make sure to book later so you aren't left out 🥰
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Taking off my indoor hoodie to put on my outdoor hoodie. Pls I don't wanna be Bri'ish anymore.
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Not an influencer on This Morning saying that people critiquing them for being in Dubai for 'work' should simply 'be kind xo'. Great point! Live, Laugh, Spread Virus!
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Nah how did a man that tried to hit on me yesterday ask me if I was gonna make him chapattis and curry? I don't even do that when my mum asks.
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@turnmyswagguon
Personally, hearing about James Dyson's hoover failures would make me feel much better!!
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The Northern line is such an attention seeker, it's like no you won't listen to music, you will hear me scream.
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@thediyora
This was how I first understood I wasn't white after going to a friend's house in primary school
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Now seems like a good time to remind everyone that
@ProfSunnySingh
said it first: "And don’t give them David Walliams bloody well again! There are loads of other writers who are doing amazing work".
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I wrote something extremely personal about why my family came to this country and what they left behind to do so. With the surge of anti-immigrant attitudes in the media recently, I'd really appreciate if you could give it a read!
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Had my bag robbed last night because apparently I am a living sitcom and this is the list I gave to police. It's number 4 for me 💔😔
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Thomas Markle says he only does interviews when Harry and Meghan don't talk to him. He says he waits 30 days between speaking to the press to see if H&M will reach out and when they don't he does it again. This is... manipulative?
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*sigh* somehow I've woken up in England again.
“Misogyny is absolutely wrong, whether it’s a man against a woman, or a woman against a man”
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The outfits in Skins season 1 were some of the most offensive things that aired on TV in the 00s. I mean...
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Me: I'm just going to do thin eyeliner today.
Me after correcting the mistakes on it:
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Not me being locked in a meeting room in the office and everyone trying to get me out. I just love attention-seeking...
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Disappointed but not surprised to see how many males I went to Uni with not interacting with these news stories/ showing solidarity with those condemning the vile actions of the Warwick boys. Truth is they're more concerned about privacy of their chats than the safety of women
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After 25 yrs I am ready to embrace Hagrid hair. Curly people please give me styling advice to stop it looking like an Arab man's chest hair.
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Didn't think it needed clarifying but racism doesn't need a guilty intention, it's more of a fact - something is either racist or it's not
#LooseWomen
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Laughing at all the mags who rejected this pitch now, only
@galdemzine
wanted to make this space for Muslim women defying the usual narratives 😇
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Interviewed the Prince of Venice (from Italy's defunct monarchy) about life in exile, the power of having women in society's senior roles, and most importantly, pasta.
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Omg there's a little girl opposite me reading Girl Talk magazine. Childhood nostalgia UNLOCKED. How is this magazine still in print and what's my horoscope reading this month???
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I don't want to sound too much like an ethnic dad but I really need someone to walk on my back.
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@LacunaVoices
Thank you, I'm not entirely comfortable naming the publication because I think it could harm my reputation but also I want this to be about the industry as a whole and how we shouldn't believe things are suddenly fair now. Lots more progress to make 💜
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I was going to write this anonymously and I certainly wasn't going to share it in case employers saw it, but then I realised I don't want to work for a company that would use this against me so here is my most serious journalism to date friends:
We have a gripping piece today on the twin torment of wanting to take your own life when your religion holds suicide as the ultimate sin
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I love Warwick but for a Uni with such naff careers support and services I find the constant demands for me to tell them what I'm doing now very annoying. My career (so far) was formed with the help of societies & placements I secured independently, not the uni or my department.
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My traditional Asian mum is mad at me because I told all our family she said Marcus Rashford was fit (in other words)
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Conducted, styled and designed my first (digital) cover shoot since starting
@MesaMagazine
in March lockdown. Presenting the DJ behind east London’s queer Bollywood night
#HUNGAMA
and WINNER of Netflix's
#TheBigFlowerFight
@RyanLanji
as The Modern Maharajah 👑👑👑
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I don't order off Amazon 🤬🤬🤬 because I want local bookshops to thrive 😌😌😌 so I buy them from a big chain instead 😇😇😇
I make a point of buying books at my local
@Waterstones
rather than ordering on Amazon because I want bookstores to thrive, but if I go into your store and a member of staff asks me to wear a mask, you will lose my business forever.
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I don't think Facebook understands what is worth a notification anymore. I don't care that the girl I sat next to in year 3 at primary school checked into a pub.
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For real though, why are almost all the major Middle East Correspondents white? Would media outlets not having more effective reporting by hiring staff who embody or at least truly understand the customs and cultures being reported on alongside the facts 🤔
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I'm so glad my parents moved to this country just so I could sing It's Coming Home out the window of a South London flat. The immigrant dream 🥰
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Is anyone I know or partially know looking for a flatmate in London from Aug/Sept? I make great Mexican food, have an impressive collection of clothes, and will look good next to you in photos but not enough to detract attention from you x
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There are many industry plot holes in The Devil Wears Prada but Andy getting an interview at Runway with only student newspaper experience? Are you kidding me?
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I don't wanna be that person BUT Rupi Kaur poems are actually so bad lol? Props to her for making money from it but they are simply not good.
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Why are people OBSESSED with asking politicians if they would take the knee? Ask them how their party advocates for racial equality and what they are doing to dismantle structural racism. Get actual views out of them that the public can hold them to account for?
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Not usually confident enough to discuss my experiences as a racial minority within my journalism but something about this really hit home.
When
@armani_sy
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I am once again abandoning a pile of part-read books in favour of a new one and all I feel is shame.
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I was doing a lateral flow test and just referred to myself as Gagatha Christie and no one was around to laugh.
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Got my big fat ass into journalism school and I'm chuffed about it 🎉
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Looking to speak to an expert in workplace racism today. It's for a feature on why women of colour in senior positions are often labeled as angry or called bullies - in reference to Meghan. Please RT for reach:
#journorequest
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I find it so odd when trains just split themselves in half and only one bit carries on. Are you a worm?
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Nah I cry every day but I ain't seen no cheques from you guys???
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If I could choose between the end of the pandemic and the end of the Chidera/Florence feud, I would choose the pandemic but only by a small margin.
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Warwick will be all over this, finally a bit of good PR instead of stories of racial abuse or sexual harassment amongst students
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Looking to speak to someone in music industry/ a streaming specialist about Spotify paying Harry and Meghan for their podcast while not paying artists fairly. They aren't the first 'celebs' to secure a deal like this but they are facing more criticism
#prrequest
#journorequest
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Lol I did this interview about an article I wrote that I'm probably gonna get roasted for in the comments but Y NOT.
A thrift store in England labeled traditional Desi garments as “festival wear.”
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Really hope Paul Mescal got his GCSE in Dance after this practical exam!!
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Do you ever wonder how many PR nightmares could have been avoided if newsrooms were a smidge more representative of multicultural society?
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I'm going from a drag brunch to watch the euros today and I think that's called range.
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Still really keen to speak to women of colour who have been unfairly accused of workplace bullying, told they're too difficult to work with, or too intimidating etc - this can be anonymous
#journorequest
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@ChantayyJayy
Will be forever haunted by the caucasity of her "EDUCATE ME!!!" demands. Sis, read a book?
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Me: in 2021 I'm not gonna get annoyed by dumb posts I see on the Internet & write about them.
*22 days later*.
Thank you to the amazing
@_RiniJones_
and
@henn__a
for speaking to me about their experiences of being hairy as South Asians
#UnibrowMovement
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What scares me about Sarah Everard's story is that this is during a pandemic where men are more reluctant than usual to go near strangers, and there are fewer of them out on the street. Imagine how many women suffered before and unfortunately will when things 'go back to normal'.
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I've only slept for 6 hours because I was kept up by Jackie Weaver memes. I hope Handforth is happy with their 15 mins of fame.
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I lied and told my flatmates I also liked Love Island when I viewed the property so they'd pick me to move in and now the time has come for me to pay the piper.
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Is it weird that my best ever birthday was in lockdown? Like it's the one I've really felt the love from and realised my friends and family are phenomenal 🥰
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Me in coffee shop: is this Fela Kuti?
Anonymous white friend: is which fella a cutie?
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So emotional seeing all these brave women coming together tonight in Clapham. You're all amazing, I wish I could have been there with you all 💜
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I've got that type of anxiety where you feel like you did something incredibly embarrassing but I haven't done anything 🙃
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Not my nephew lifting up my jumper and declaring I have a baby in my stomach. No, kid, just biscuits.
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Writing a story about pasta while fasting is probably not the best idea 🤤
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I start new books before I've finished the previous one. I'm about 50 pages into 5 different books, am I a sociopath?
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And Just Like That is doing entirely too much to ram progressive awareness down our throats. Pls we just wanted fewer jokes at the expense of diverse communities, not Carrie's first sari but go off I guess.
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Big mask perk is being able to lip sync for my life on public transport without being noticed.
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I don't want to be famous but if I ever am, I hope the Armani brands would use the opportunity to make me a brand ambassador. Just seems like a good business move to use our shared name in this way.
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Every time my fancy skincare products run out I wish I was a 2-in-1 shampoo and body wash man.
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My latest DM request is clearly from someone who just binged You. It's giving very much Joe Goldberg.
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If you are only a nice person to people when you want something from them, then you are not a nice person ‼️
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I would simply like to live in a world where a hardback book has the cover art directly on it and not on a shitty paper sleeve that I will tear with my fat fingers in 0.5 secs.
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Next time I say men are trash and a guy is like 'NOT ALL MEN 😡', I'll agree and say 'you're right Marcus Rashford isn't'.
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We all agree that World Cup summer was top tier, right? It was all downhill from there.
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People ask me why I want to be a journalist, it's so I can tweet things like this.
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I've enlisted the first person of (hopefully) many for a very exciting project. If you're a creative South Asian or you know one please DM me. (Can my pals RT this for reach please).
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If the
@Tate
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So
@armani_sy
is trapped in a meeting room and it’s a whole operation to get her out.
#FreeOurGirlArmani
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I started the day at my desk with good posture, I have ended it typing from bed propped up with my sister's pregnancy pillow - it's called range
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