Yusra Habib

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.