Mariam Seddiq is a history enthusiast who studied at the University of Sydney, Australia, specialising in Islamic civilisation and history. She also completed a postgraduate diploma in psychology from Monash University, Melbourne. She appreciates how interwoven the subjects of history and psychology are in deepening our understanding of people and society. For the past thirteen years, she has been busy teaching history to secondary school students and continues to pursue her research and writing through her website www.medrese.be