She is a regular reviewer for Sky News, Financial Times and London Evening Standard, and has written for The Guardian, The Pool, Daily Mail, among others. A former literary editor of The Independent where she worked from 2001 until 2016, she is now also the curator of M-Fest: a Muslim Festival of Books and Ideas, launching in 2018, and deputy editor of Wasafiri magazine. She is a trustee on the board of the Orwell Prize and on the advisory committee for English PEN’s writing in translation programme.