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Sobh Saeed Rid
Aspiration Statement
I am a writer, researcher, and aspiring journalist with experience across reporting, creative writing, and documentary storytelling. My work often explores themes of gender, culture, politics, and social change.
Core Skills
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Canva
Preferred Career Paths
First priority: Journalism
Second priority: Research
Third priority: Graphic Design
Core Competencies
- Adaptability
- Collaborates Openly
- Planning
- Problem Solving
- Takes Initiative
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- Editor-In-Chief
- Vice President,Feminist Collective
- Hdu Marketing Lead,Gaming Club Habib Debate Union
- Content Production Member,Pride Press
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Research & Production Intern, Dawn News English (May 2025 – April 2026)
- Junior Writer (Internship), The Diplomatic Insight (November 2021 – February 2022)
Publications / Creative Projects
- Research paper on Women's Agency in Rural Sindh selected for the IVS Research Conference in April 2026 Article on Pakistan's burgeoning thrift market, its online manifestation and the way women navigate this ecosystem published in Dawn Images in July 2025. Personal essay on breaking a patriarchal cultural tradition as a kid published in Dawn EOS in October 2025. Personal auto-ethnographical essay on my grandfather's youth activism as he navigated the One Unit Scheme and the complexities behind the term nationalist published in Sarazad in September 2025.
Final Year Project
Project Title
The Digital Lives of Mithri Women
Description
MITHRI WOMEN ARE ON THE INTERNET. On TikTok, lip-syncing trending sounds. On Daraz, ordering skincare and beauty products. In DM requests, replying to boys. On Snapchat, keeping 1,000-day streaks. On ChatGPT, asking questions they can’t take anywhere else. Blending reportage with memoir, this nonfiction book enters the digital lives of young women in Sindh’s village of Mithri, a place where mobile towers blink above sugarcane fields and rumours travel faster than WiFi. Through vignettes, interviews, and the author’s own experience as a Mithri woman, the book traces the way these women navigate visibility, desire, and agency online.