I’ve always feared posting on social media. I just find it downright embarrassing. But every so often you have to tell the world what you’re up to and that you’re living your best life otherwise people will forget you exist which I think is actually worse than getting cancelled. So…

Now I’m not trying to pit women against each other, but western feminists think they’re far more advanced than Middle Eastern feminists. But this is simply not the case. Take Huda Shawarri who campaigned for equal pay in Egypt in the 1930’s- western feminists did not do this till 1970…

Gone Girl Gets Away I just got back from a basic bitch Eat Pray Love style heart healing trip to Mauritius. I once wrote in a university dissertation that the modern literary lovesick romantic heroine no longer seeks salvation through another man, (like Emma in Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina)…

Comedian, Zahra Barri pays a special homage to her favourite magazines whilst warning us of the toxicity of others ‘Sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more’ Carrie Bradshaw Sex and The City Don’t worry Carrie, no one at Vogue ever eats a proper…

Comedian Zahra Barri gives advice on the most effective ways to ask your parents for money. I’ve noticed a lot of women writing into magazines asking the question, “How do I ask my boss for a pay rise?” which makes a nice change from the usual, ‘How do I please my…

In order to save our mental health, we need to end our destructive relationship with social media. Here’s why: They say the key to happiness is, “Find something bigger than yourself and dedicate your life to it”. I don’t think this is true because Instagram is bigger than myself and it doesn’t make me happy. It does, however help me make a really big life decision. I was dead…

“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” Rene Girard, French philosopher

“What makes you vulnerable, makes you beautiful” Brene Brown Comedian, Zahra Barri, reflects on the lies she has told men over the years and makes a resolution to be more truthful to them from here on now. I pride myself on telling the truth. My therapist says: “The Truth Will…

As always Zahra gives us answers to all of life’s big questions. Today she answers the age old question: It’s the question that plagues most of us. Along with ‘What Is the Meaning of Life?’ and ‘Will My Family Accept Me if I come out as Vegan?’ and ‘What the…