{"id":1166,"date":"2021-06-07T11:21:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:27:31","slug":"fatima-elzahra-khan-undergraduate-department-of-chemical-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2021\/06\/07\/fatima-elzahra-khan-undergraduate-department-of-chemical-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatima Elzahra Khan, Undergraduate, Department of Chemical Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1167\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2021\/06\/21-05-Imperial-People_Twitter_Shifting-the-Lens_Fatima-1-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong><em>Part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/activities\/seed-fund\/shifting-the-lens\/?utm_source=imperialpeople&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=stl-21&amp;utm_content=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shifting the Lens: A celebration of cultural diversity at Imperial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Back in the Emirates and Pakistan, there is a disparity between how men and women are treated, but my mum is one of the most powerful and inspiring women I know. She left home to pursue her education and get a PhD. Marrying my dad was not the done thing \u2013 she was probably expected to marry a local, which a lot of my aunts did do.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I was born in the US but I grew up in the UK. I went to primary school in Coventry \u2013 at the time the area was predominantly white, and I was one of a handful of students at school from a different background. Then we moved to Birmingham where I went to secondary school. That was a refreshing change \u2013 I met people like me, people I could relate to. 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