In a conversation over coffee at Café Brasil, Maha Khan talks about home: For me, “home” is my family – a sense of belonging that has warmth because of...
Read more19 Nov, 2014
14 Nov, 2014
“home” is where you’ve been the happiest…
14 Nov, 2014
Over a snack-lunch of papri-chat, bhel-puri and Bombay roll at Sri Pavan Bhavan on Houston’s Hillcroft Avenue, Zeba Shah – after being away from Houston for several years during...
Read more04 Nov, 2014
feeling “at home” means being unself-conscious…
04 Nov, 2014
Writer Lacy Johnson talks about feelings about “home” (photo: selfie by Lacy): Feeling at home means not being aware of my body or appearance to others – being unself-conscious;...
Read more28 Oct, 2014
how to make “home” beneath a freeway…
28 Oct, 2014
I grip my the steering wheel and focus on the ramp that will spill us into the fast lane of Interstate-45. Minal calls out from the back: Did you...
Read more18 Oct, 2014
i feel at “home” when I’m relaxed and comfortable…
18 Oct, 2014
I converse with my friend/social worker/fellow-mother Stephanie, as we wait for our children to wrap-up soccer practice. I feel at “home” when I’m relaxed and comfortable, and able to...
Read more29 Sep, 2014
what is home?…
29 Sep, 2014
“When you ask the question ‘what is home?’ are you talking about a physical space or an emotional place?” asks my friend Yaksha. “Those are two different things.” “This...
Read more08 Jul, 2014
a grant award for my “what is home?” project…
08 Jul, 2014
I learn via email that I’ve been awarded an artist innovations grant through the Mid-America Arts Alliance for my What is Home? project, one that I started during my...
Read more13 Apr, 2014
a panel discussion for the mitchell center…
13 Apr, 2014
As part of my residency with the Mitchell Center for the Arts, I participate at CounterCurrents 2014 in a panel discussion, Challenging the Boundaries: Collaboration Among the Arts, and...
Read more10 Mar, 2014
home-cooked puri…
10 Mar, 2014
I wake up late this Sunday morning, and when I wander into the kitchen, I find that my mother Zakia Sarwar and Minal have kneaded whole-wheat flour to create...
Read more26 Oct, 2013
what is home?
26 Oct, 2013
In my two-year residency at the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, I have the opportunity to work on a subject, What Is Home?, and...
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