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Yusra Habib
Class of 2019
BSc (Honors) Social Development & Policy
Aspiration Statement
I aspire to become a published fiction writer.
Core Skills
- Creative Writing
- Leadership
- Editing
- Content writing
- Research
- Social Media Communications
- Web Content Production
- Copy Editing
Academic Awards / Achievements
- Emerging Talent at Karachi Literature Festival, 2018
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- Habib Adventure Society, Lead Operation
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Senior Subeditor (Dawn Images) - Dawn Media Group [Feb 2020 - Feb 2022]
- Senior Content Writer - Reliance, Immigration Law Advisers Limited [May 2019 - Feb 2020]
- Oxford University Press, Intern, 2017
- Never Forget Pakistan - Jibran Nasir, Research Assistant, 2016
Final Year Project
Project Title
Exploring Development Imagination through Utopian and Dystopian Fiction by South Asian Writers
Description
My thesis is ‘Exploring development through utopian and dystopian fiction by South Asian writers’. It opens debate regarding nonwestern societies being able to develop images of a technologically advanced future regardless of being pre-industrial or pre-modern.