The Barakah Effect: More With Less

Mohammed Faris is the founder of ProductiveMuslim.com – an online social enterprise dedicated to boosting productivity in the Muslim world. He’s an international speaker, author and coach and has delivered many public workshops in cities around the world. In 2014, Faris was added to the list of 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan.

Adela is a big fan of the Bradford Literature Festival and has been attending for many years! She is an international breaking-news reporter for The Washington Post based in London. Previously, she has worked for NBC News, Al Jazeera English, Thomson Reuters and The Associated Press. She is a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, with a degree in Law, and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Before pivoting to journalism, she spent four years as an international corporate lawyer in London, Dubai and Libya. Adela is interested in China and Africa and has traveled to more than 70 countries, including reporting trips to Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Jordan, the United States and much of Europe. Adela grew up in Manchester, Kent and London but also spent long stints in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, where her father was born.