laying out final excerpts from my memoir before documents are sent to Oskar to layout The last few weeks have been filled with meals as I spend time with...
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07 May, 2015
essay in gray matters…
07 May, 2015
photograph of my 2009 “Listening from Within” installation dedicated to my father, Dr. Mohammad Sarwar; photo by Eric Hester An excerpt from my longer essay “That Long Monday Afternoon”...
Read more30 Apr, 2015
people don’t talk about the necessity of crossing…
30 Apr, 2015
Karen Martinez, a filmmaker and a recent college graduate, talks about “home” and crossing borders: Houston is my home. I was born in Tula, Hidalgo – Mexico – and...
Read more26 Apr, 2015
an earthquake and student voices…
26 Apr, 2015
Sagar’s apartment ceiling After a sleepless night, I wake up to read a text message by Hemangi, a Westbury High School student who participated in my storytelling workshop: Did...
Read more25 Apr, 2015
another assassination…
25 Apr, 2015
July 2007: L: Sabeen Mahmud at T2F; R: I offer my first reading at T2F My mobile phone ringer goes off while I’m at a lunch meeting. I glance...
Read more16 Apr, 2015
a lesson i learned about being desi and american is that boundaries are made up…
16 Apr, 2015
Zarana Sanghani, who recently returned to Houston after graduate school and working New York, talks about the issue of “home” – a subject that’s close to her heart: Feeling...
Read more14 Apr, 2015
you have to find home within yourself…
14 Apr, 2015
My friend Gordon talks about his sense of home as we drink tea and sip smoothies just a few blocks from his house in Freedmen’s Town, where he and...
Read more07 Apr, 2015
i think of windows when i think of home…
07 Apr, 2015
I meet up with my friends Sally, Beverly and Yolanda, who I know through many Houston-based spaces and organizations including Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and the University of Houston’s...
Read more03 Apr, 2015
for me, everything is here: friends, family, health, doctors…
03 Apr, 2015
Most of the interviews I’ve undertaken for my project have been with friends and family who were born in spaces other than Houston. For the next month until my...
Read more02 Apr, 2015
shukria / thank you…
02 Apr, 2015
Today is a special day. One of the storytelling workshop participants, Sunita, has opened out her Crescent Oaks apartment for a final gathering. This past spring, during the workshop...
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