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Nabihah Iqbal PIONEERING POLYMATH

As a 13-year-old, Nabihah Iqbal would make routine weekend pilgrimages from her home in London’s Regents Park to Camden. There, she’d spend the afternoon shopping for outlandish outfits (she was in the midst of a grunge phase, so only baggy trousers would do) before eventually blagging her way into punk and ska gigs in the evening. “I think maybe I looked old for my age,” she recalls, grinning. “Or they just

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