photo by Maha Shahid Based in Boston where my sister Beena Sarwar has been for the last four years, she’s happy to spend a week in Houston and get...
Read more14 Feb, 2015
08 Feb, 2015
freedom on the streets…
08 Feb, 2015
photo by Minal Saldivar As we drive up the freeway ramp, I notice that the freeway shack that Minal and I documented a few months ago has been “torn...
Read more04 Feb, 2015
essay about my short trip to delhi…
04 Feb, 2015
snacks outside a Delhi train station My essay, No Borders: Delhi Twenty-Five Years Later about my travels to Delhi appeared in Aman Ki Asha, a print and online newspaper...
Read more28 Jan, 2015
equating muslims to dogs…
28 Jan, 2015
view from the 16th floor of a Harris County courthouse The first round of questions is posed by the lawyer representing the father: Please raise your number if you...
Read more15 Jan, 2015
home is a space where you don’t have to watch out for proper behavior or ways to be…
15 Jan, 2015
As I’ve worked on my What Is Home? project, I’ve recorded many conversations with my mother Zakia Sarwar about her multiple migrations – from North India to Lahore, Pakistan...
Read more12 Jan, 2015
i’d feel more at “home” here if there were more people involved in the arts…
12 Jan, 2015
In a conversation with one of my oldest and dearest friends, “Justin” (name changed for personal reasons), I’m not surprised to hear his words: My deepest feelings of “home”...
Read more02 Jan, 2015
home is a space that I create for myself and not one that’s defined for me …
02 Jan, 2015
Filmmaker Yunuen Perez Vertti drops by my Houston house to eat a meal prepared by my mother. A native of Mexico City, Yunuen lived for a decade in Houston...
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