Tareena Shakil / The Sunday Times magazine.


Tareena Shakil photographed at a daylight studio in Birmingham wearing casual clothes.

Tareena Shakil photographed in Birmingham for The Sunday Times magazine. Tareena was the first British woman convicted of travelling to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS. She was sentenced to six years in prison. More than a decade later, she now speaks publicly about radicalisation and rebuilding her life – she has amassed a following of more than 50k on TikTok, where she shares relationship advice.

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