Shafi Musaddique
Shafi Musaddique covers Britain and Ireland for the Christian Science Monitor from London, where he was born and raised.
He worked in London’s museum and arts sector, before pursuing a career in journalism. Shafi started off life as a journalist reporting for local London newspapers in 2015, before joining The Economist’s first ever social media team. He then went on to launch a radio program called People Fixing The World at the BBC World Service, and then became business reporter for the Independent and CNBC International. In 2019, Shafi covered European politics for Euronews based in Lyon, France, as well as freelancing for the National UAE. He has also freelanced for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and Business Insider.
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As 2020 shudders to an end, many of us will be eager to move on, hoping that 2021 shows a path out of a pandemic that has upended our way of life. In that spirit, we asked Monitor writers and editors, near and far, to reflect on what COVID-19 has taken away and what, paradoxically, it has given us. It’s a journey into what we yearn to experience again and what we have come to appreciate most, to the point where we may no longer feel the urge to revert to old ways when the risk recedes.