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Dua Anjum

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California, Los Angeles
As seen in: Ventura County Star, MSN, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Scribd, Yahoo News, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, Rolling Stone, The Christian Science Monitor, The Seattle Times and
Covers:  Housing, Homelessness, Education, Courts, Arts, Culture, Books, Social Justice, Immigration, Equity and Politics
work in @vcstar @latimes @seattletimes @csmonitor @nbcnews @rollingstone. alum @uscannenberg. ’23 Fellow @lapressclub. email duanjum@alumni.usc.edu

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Dua Anjum is a California-based multimedia journalist born and raised in Pakistan, with an M.S. in Journalism degree from the University of Southern California and a background in software engineering

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Author of bestseller visiting Seattle to discuss octopuses and other ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’

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By Dua Anjum Verified
| The Seattle Times Verified
Anthropomorphizing an octopus for her bestselling book made Shelby Van Pelt more mindful of the perspectives that animals in captivity might have on their situation. Van Pelt debuted with “Remarkably Bright Creatures” in 2022, and her octopus narrator, Marcellus, gained wild popularity. The novel, set in a fictional Puget Sound small town, explores the life of aquarium cleaner Tova Sullivan as she develops an unlikely — and life-changing — connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
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Anne Frank exhibit visits Seattle from Amsterdam. Why it matters now

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By Dua Anjum Verified
| The Seattle Times Verified
Through May 31, Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity is hosting the traveling exhibit “Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank.” The exhibit, developed by Amsterdam’s renowned Anne Frank House, marks the 80th anniversary of liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in Germany, where Anne Frank was killed in 1945 because she was Jewish. “We talk about the victims being largely innocent,” said museum manager Michael Langberg.
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Seattle author details ‘The Unforgiving Hours’ of endurance sports Original

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By Dua Anjum Verified
| The Seattle Times Verified
To Shannon Hogan, the words and the lives of endurance athletes are a form of poetry. In her debut book, “The Unforgiving Hours” (out April 8 from VeloPress), Hogan takes on the cadence of the long-distance pace with care. The book explores the mental and physical resilience required for endurance sports, with each chapter highlighting different athletes and events.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Interning for The Nation in Islamabad

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Kara Danvers

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To be a journalist is to be eternally curious, to learn something new every day, to serve people and to share the truth.