Articles by Hameeda Syed

Hameeda Syed is a programme associate and freelance journalist by profession. She writes about conflict, religion and identity. She is a published poet. She is currently engaged in various youth-led initiatives addressing online discrimination and SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights). She has a background in psychology, conflict analysis and social sciences research.

Anatomy of an (Drug) Abused Kashmiri

July 8, 2024

In Kashmir, ‘young’ and ‘addiction’ have become synonymous. Now, a band of youngsters enjoying their youthful time around a lake is seen with intense suspicion and concern rather than amusement and well, nostalgia. (Jawaen chu jawaanihun lutf tulaan, as they say in Kashmir).

Seeing the Beauty Between Desire and Duty

November 10, 2022

Hameeda has participated in the EduLog programme with The Third Eye for its Education Edition. EduLog mentored 12 writers and image-makers from India, Nepal and Bangladesh to remember – in the present continuous – their experience of education through a feminist lens.