To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

Belief means nothing without actions

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.