Yazeed started his career at a daily newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa, and has since worked as an editor of a national newspaper for teenagers, a freelance writer for various magazines and newspapers as well as Internet publications.

He has also produced radio documentaries and news reports for a community radio station in Cape Town. His journalistic work has taken him to various countries and he has also worked as a journalist in Egypt, Germany and Jordan. He has a keen interest in travel writing.