I’ve worked with some incredible news and media platforms so far. Publications I’ve written for include CBC News, The Globe and Mail, Ricochet Media, Canada’s National Observer, The Toronto Star, The New Arab, Ajam Media, Chatelaine Magazine, Brown Girl Magazine, Truly Belong Magazine, Broadview Magazine, gal-dem, Narcity Toronto, and more.
Here are some of my favourite stories:
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When speaking up for Palestine gets you put on a list
Ricochet Media | September 2025 -
The Key to My Domestic Bliss? Not Cooking
Chatelaine Magazine | September 2025 - The 40-year-old virgin homebuyer
The Globe and Mail | July 2025 - A realistic guide to retirement for mid- or late-life homebuyers
The Globe and Mail | July 2025 - I don’t want to be a Karen. But as a brown woman, is there something to be learned from her?
CBC News | Jan 12, 2025 - ‘We will never give them our land’: The city for rich that is displacing thousands of indigenous people in Pakistan’s Sindh
The New Arab | July 27, 2021
- Architecture professor Tammy Gaber celebrates the diversity and versatility of mosque design across Canada
The Globe and Mail | October 28, 2022
- The protests in Iran aren’t about the hijab. They’re about policing women’s bodies
CBC News | September 29, 2022
- Why many South Asians aren’t celebrating the first racialized British prime minister
The Toronto Star | October 29, 2022
- ‘They want to delete women from society’: Najiba Ayubi on being a female journalist in Afghanistan
The New Arab | Dec 14, 2021
- How anti-Brexit street art in London’s east end is sparking conversation – on walls
CBC News | October 13, 2019
- Urdu poetry fuels a wave of language learning on Instagram
Ajam Media Collective | August 2, 2021
- Pakistan has a problem with rape, but castration is not the answer
The New Arab | Nov 11, 2020
- I underwent FGM. It doesn’t define me
Broadview Magazine | February 5, 2020
- Truly Belong Magazine: Migration and Movement (Deputy Editor)
Truly Belong Issue 8 | 2021
Audio:
- There is a List (5-part investigative podcast)
- In Good Spirit with Indigenous Tourism Alberta x The Globe and Mail (chase production)
- The Globe and Mail’s Stress Test Podcast (Seasons 4-6, 9-11)
- The Globe and Mail’s The Decibel Podcast
- Canada’s National Observer’s Hot Politics Podcast
- Canada’s National Observer’s Maxed Out Podcast
- DCP Podcast
- Plan B Podcast
Zahra Travels 