I am introduced to artist Masooma Syed by family friend and artist Salima Hashmi, who knows Masooma through Lahore, where Masooma grew up. Currently based in Delhi and married...
Read more12 Dec, 2014
03 Dec, 2014
the space for “home” is moveable…
03 Dec, 2014
My friend Kairn Klieman responds to questions about home: Home is feeling relaxed and free and at ease–hidden from all of life’s demands. It feels cuddly. Home is not...
Read more14 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 more07 Nov, 2014
it’s taken time for me to be okay with being in-between…
07 Nov, 2014
Shirin Herman, who works with Houston Independent Services’ Refugee Program, talks about her personal journey: At this point in my life, Houston is home; being with my husband at...
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 more15 Oct, 2014
for me, “home” means being around family wherever family is…
15 Oct, 2014
Part of my What Is Home? project includes raising question (with a few more thrown in, thanks to my friends Jaspal and Yaksha) to family members, friends and others...
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 more01 Sep, 2014
reflections on ferguson and gaza…
01 Sep, 2014
In her August 28, 2014 essay “On growing up in Ferguson and Palestine” published in the Washington Post, poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes: In Ferguson, an invisible line separated...
Read more10 Jul, 2014
sneaking a cup of coffee during an islamabad ramzan morning…
10 Jul, 2014
My writer friend Ilona Yusuf sneaks me into a café in Islamabad. They may throw us out, she says. But let’s try anyway. She shares the story of how...
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...
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