Homa Khaleeli is a Commissioning Editor and writer at the Guardian. With an MA in South Asian studies at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, her interests include South Asian fiction, feminism and the Islamic world – but she has written about everything from Eastenders and Iranian rap to attempting to make the Olympic high jump team (it didn’t end well). Her profile of radical Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi is included in Women of the Revolution, an anthology of 40 years of the Guardian’s women’s pages. Homa has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Dawn, and has broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She lives in London.