Yousif Nur
writer, journalist and curator
I write about fintech, music, travel and culture.
The Guardian
Yousif Nur
Yousif Nur is a journalist who writes freelance for various publications including the Guardian, Dazed and Confused and Notion Magazine. He writes mostly about music. He tweets here
Experience
Experience: I’m a world champion pea thrower
My current record is 44 metres – there’s definitely a special technique
March 2020
The world's best parties
Everybody dance! Hishek Bishek, the Arabic club night open to all
Despite the UK’s large Arab population, there are few clubs that play their music. En...
The Guardian
Yousif Nur
Experience: I’m a world champion pea thrower
March 2020
Everybody dance! Hishek Bishek, the Arabic club night open to all
September 2019
The world's best parties
6Ts Rhythm and Soul Society: sweat and talc at London's longest-running club night
For 40 years, one all-nighter has brought the heaviest, most obscure soul classics to London’s 100 Club – and its middle-aged crowd doesn’t quit
June 2018
A comedian with Asperger’s who isn’t an antisocial introvert? It’s no joke
Robert White is turnin...
europe.money2020.com
Copywriting for Largest Fintech event in Europe
Was briefed to copyedit and write content for several pages of the Money2020 website.
blockchainblueprintcourse.com
Blockchain Blueprint Online Course
Developed and implemented a content strategy for an online course about Blockchain Technology for startups and medium sized businesses. Also in charge of social media posts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
dazeddigital.com
What the hell is going on with Bitcoin, explained
Here's everything you need to know about the cryptocurrency's storm of bad PR, from alleged suicides to Satoshi Nakamoto
In the last few weeks someone, or something, has been going on the full offensive against Bitcoin. The gloves have come off and it looks like it’s going to get a whole lot nastier. It would appear as though that someone, something out there doesn’t like that one bit.
Mt Gox went bankrupt, confiscating all their customers Bitcoins along with them in the process, Newsweek bro...
keynote2015.com
If Bitcoin’s the answer, what’s the question? – Yousif Nur
When we were kids, we all became obsessed about what the future would look like in the year 2000 – a night sky shimmering with skyscrapers, flying cars, neon lights and hoverboards with regular trips to Mars. A new millennium had passed and what do we have to show for it? Well, quite a lot actually. Just not in a way we all expected. Except for maybe the neon lights and even then they look kitschy.
Post 9/11 and the world is a different place, but it’s more of a dystopia. Big Brother is indee...
dazeddigital.com
Introducing a new wave of celebrity cryptocurrency
Who needs Kanye? The Bill Hicks of finance, Max Keiser, is preparing to launch MaxCoin
Fashion trends are no longer restricted to clothes and music: they’ve now made their way over to the cryptocurrency world. Joining Dogecoin and now-deceased Coinye West is the latest addition to the 60 or so different coins in cyberspace: Russia Today’s Max Keiser with his own, you guessed it, MaxCoin.
If you don’t know who Max Keiser is, he’s basically the most watched news TV presenter in the world – but ...
The Guardian
A comedian with Asperger’s who isn’t an antisocial introvert? It’s no joke
For someone who describes himself as “the only gay, Aspergic, quarter-Welsh comic on the British comedy circuit”, Robert White had already cornered a niche market or two. And thanks to his recent semi-final triumph on Britain’s Got Talent his career looks set to take off despite any prejudices that might exist towards his sexual orientation, disability or nationality.
People might see Asperger syndrome as something holding White back, but that clearly isn’t the case. Once he ended up in priso...
The Guardian
The upside of living with Asperger's
At a very early age I knew I was somehow different from the others. An unexplainable difference in behaviour, idiosyncrasies and just having bags more energy than other toddlers. Couple that with numerous trips to different psychiatrists asking why I had frequent tantrums and crying fits, and was very antisocial with other schoolkids. Something was mostly definitely wrong with me. My parents were unnerved by it. It was not so much that I had a problem with myself but, rather, a question mark ...
The Telegraph
Meet the man trying to change the world through yoga
David Sye isn’t quite the typical yoga teacher you'd find in your local gym. For one thing, you can't miss his vast array of tattoos – which include a Shiva on his back, a triple clef sign, a cobra and one of his daughter.
munchies.vice.com
Steakhouses and Wagyu Burgers Are Changing Britain’s Halal Food Scene
As Britain’s Muslim diners become more adventurous, demand for halal food beyond fast food chains has increased, with halal steakhouses and street food eateries opening across the country.
Yousif Nur
Mar 31 2016, 10:01am
All photos by Steven T. Hanley.
For a long time, if you wanted to eat halal food in Britain, you went to a Punjabi eatery like London's Tayyabs or one of the restaurant's lining Manchester's "Curry Mile" and the Birmingham Balti Triangle. Alternatively, you could make do with...
thequietus.com
Turning Points: Yusuf/Cat Stevens' 13 Favourite Albums Yousif Nur , October 11th, 2017 10:42
In my early teens, my uber-religious dad brought home an audio CD of Yusuf Islam narrating the life of the Prophet Mohammed. Little did I know that later on that Yusuf had a previous alias as a singer-songwriter named Cat Stevens.
I learned that in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam, which subsequently changed his musical listening habits, reflected in the time scope of his Baker's Dozen. “I was very selective over what records I bought in terms of what I allowed to enter my audio domain,” ...
thequietus.com
Oxygène Of Collaboration: Jean-Michel Jarre's Favourite Albums Yousif Nur , October 20th, 2015 10:53
Jean-Michel Jarre has a lot on his mind. Not least the heating in our small pod, which won't switch off. Then again, when you've sold over 80 million records and holds the world record for the largest crowd at a concert - 3.5 million people in Moscow in 1997 - you've earned the right to make demands such as switching rooms or having the AC switched off.
"Do you mind if I take my scarf off, as I've got a strange kind of flu or angina of some sort?" Jarre mutters. Hiccups and illnesses aside, t...
The Guardian
It helps that Susan Boyle has made her Asperger's public
In 2009 an unknown woman appeared on Britain's Got Talent and sang I Dreamed A Dream. To say it bowled everyone over would be a gross understatement, and her life from then on changed forever. She went on to become the first woman to have a No 1 album in the UK and US simultaneously and has to date sold 19m albums.
This week Susan Boyle has made headlines again, after revealing in an interview with the Observer that she has recently being diagnosed as having Asperger's syndrome. It came about...