Muti'ah Badruddeen
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🇳🇬 🇸🇦 Muslimah Writer Winner: 2022 @the_swapNG Shortlist: Discoveries 2025 Longlist: Commonwealth Prize 2022 Reproductive Health Doctor & Founder, @SRH_Ed
Joined August 2020
The news is out… Allaahuma baarik fr fr
Drumroll please… the 2025 #Discoveries shortlist is here! Each of the six talented writers have worked hard on their novel-in-progress, dazzling the judges with their originality, characterisation and storytelling. Learn more about them here: https://t.co/Iv968HnyYE
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Story of my own personal Hannah: A thread So, CMUI set of 2001 had 11 Muslim girls in various stages of hijab. It was unprecedented for the time, and the clinical lecturers did not know what to do with us In particular, was a prof of surgery who sent us out of class to dress -1
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I’m bored so it’s as good as any a time to tell my induction story After the ruckus we caused, being the largest number of visibly Muslim students admitted to clinical school of “We, Ibadan” things finally settled down, 4 years later we scaled through. Sha, 98 of 260+ of us did
A Turkish Muslim man is intimidated to shake a lady’s hand, which he refuses to do and explains that he is Muslim, that it is haram and that he didn’t make the rules. The lady rebuffs, saying she’s also Muslim but that he is a coward. Türkiye remains highly polarised.
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Day768 of the Palestinian genocide. Genocide survivors living in rain-flooded tents. Images of tortured detainees spreading online. Apartheid Israel still selling weapons worldwide,even in Europe, where conferences on Palestine are cancelled. If this doesn’t nauseate us,what will
My wife and I just spoke with our families in Gaza. Most of them told us they’ll be sleeping tonight on mattresses and blankets completely soaked with rainwater. More than half of our relatives are children, some under the age of five. And yes, tonight they will sleep on wet
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The Nigerian Dream is the pursuit of excellence, prosperity, and global relevance through intellect, creativity, and hard work. It’s the conviction that with vision and discipline, you can shape your own destiny.
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So… “landslide” was a euphemism? Bcos this is waaaay too close a margin for a city known for its progressiveness in a country that just elected the orange bully for the second time But wetin consign me, I guess 🤷🏾♀️
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Someone sent me this picture and I had to convince even myself that “nope, that’s not me!” Eventually it was the lack of glasses that did the trick
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So… “landslide” was a euphemism? Bcos this is waaaay too close a margin for a city known for its progressiveness in a country that just elected the orange bully for the second time But wetin consign me, I guess 🤷🏾♀️
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I mean, even Yasir Qadhi said something similar- and he’s not been the most women-friendly in his positions, generally
It would be wonderful to see our ulama someday establish clear protective structures for women after divorce, going beyond the call for ihsan to include practical measures such as alimony and other forms of support.
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-head, finding shapes for reality by making them into stories. This is all I have done, forever, done it so much, so satisfyingly; I have never used a pen Maybe I am not just failing; maybe there is something I have that I can barter, if only for the approval of those I respect."
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-The fall of day becomes a battle. Birds are working themselves into a frenzy, flying about feverishly, unbearably shrill." But also, “It is clear – so clear. All this time, without writing one word, I have been reading novels and watching people, and writing what I see in my -
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Writer moots, do y’all have work you return to when writing life is getting to you? One of mine is Binyavanga’s One Day… https://t.co/KbePdM8UCj Beautiful, unapologetically African "The sun is the deep yellow of a free-range egg, on the verge of bleeding its yolk over the sky.
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‘We are, it seems, in the middle of nowhere.’ Binyavanga Wainaina's robust piece of memoir.
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UK universities are a joke. A*, A, A and it’s a £3k scholarship on offer? On top £27k international student fee?!
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Twitter just showed me a tweet by a Naija book person who has blocked me- and I have so many questions 🧐🤔
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