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First Love It was love at first sight —and it was true with the breathless passion that the years could not dim and like a faithful lover I have returned again and again Half a century...

Jewels of Asia, a popular annual gala celebrating entrepreneurs from American-Asian and diverse communities doing business in Washington metro area, will take place online on October 22. The virtual event named “Jewels of Asia” Chamber Awards...

Some years ago while working on an academic project with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, I noticed a small book on the shelf. I began leafing through it...

Just 3 years ago, Pew Research Center found that fifty-five percent of Protestant Christians in the U.S. surveyed believed that Islam and democracy are naturally incompatible. The media often perpetuate this alleged incompatibility, and yet, great...

Posing nude for a Zahoor painting was a privilege, an event for any woman. For a complete portrait is a reflection of the heart’s innermost emotions, pain and wisdom interpreted onto the rough surface of the...

I was dying of thirst and rain had been banished from the skies. The clouds were intoxicated elephants waving their trunks at me, their shapes transforming into a vortex of steam. I longed to ascend and...

Once I was at my office at the HEC in Islamabad and a government employee of a junior rank next to my office came to say salaam to me, probably curious about one of the few...

The story of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan is as unlikely as is its impact on the world centuries after it was written. The twelfth century novel was written by Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail, advisor to the ruler in Marrakesh,...

The United Nations has warned of rising intolerance against vulnerable communities around the world since the outbreak of coronavirus often manifesting itself in the form of blaming campaign and violence. “A surge in stigma and racist...

Nergis Mavalvala, a famed Pakistani-American astrophysicist, will be the new dean of the School of Science at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology from next month. She will be the first woman to serve as dean...