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 more14 Nov, 2014
15 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 more13 Jul, 2014
window-shopping at the forum…
13 Jul, 2014
The pre-Eid shopping frenzy has already begun in Karachi, and shopping centers remain open after iftari. One night, my mother Zakia Sarwar and I wander over to the Forum,...
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...
Read more07 Jul, 2014
a visit to rohtas 2 in lahore…
07 Jul, 2014
Thanks to Salima Hashmi, I spend the evening iftar with a group of artists at Rohtas 2, a gallery on one side of Professor Hashmi’s house as we discuss...
Read more14 Dec, 2013
finding comfort…
14 Dec, 2013
The temperature is freezing cold as I wander through the roundabout near George Washington University in search of Thai food. As I walk on Pennsylvania Avenue, I walk past...
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