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My Persian Paradox taught me how sharing stories helps create empathy, peace
The pain we carry from the past and don’t have time to think about will eventually come out and hit us. All this time, it has been sitting there waiting for an opportunity to talk and...August 19, 2019 1957 0 -
Pakistan, India trade fire as UNSC convenes on Kashmir imbroglio
Pakistan reported that three of its soldiers died Thursday in Indian firing from across the Line of Control in Kashmir while its forces killed five Indian personnel. New Delhi has denied any loss of its soldiers...August 16, 2019 625 0 -
July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded
It’s official now. The summer sun did not just bake parts of South Asia, South America, Africa or Europe last month. Rather, it was much more than the blazing sun. The seas, the lands and ice...August 15, 2019 788 0 -
Eminent Pakistani-American doctor Shamshad Haroon passes away
Dr. Shamshad Haroon, an eminent child psychiatrist who practiced in Arkansas, has passed away after a brave fight against cancer. She was a leading expert in the field of teen and child psychiatry and a recipient...May 13, 2019 2869 1 -
An American Muslim’s film spotlights the unsung ‘Angels Within’
The trigger for producer Noor Naghmi’s newest film was not just the post-9/11 anti-Muslim environment in the United States or even inflammatory 2016 election campaign rhetoric, but the stark distortion and lack of representation of America’s...April 24, 2019 1414 0 -
Pakistani-American hosts Israeli, Palestinian doctors bonding to treat suffering humanity
“In the sufferer, let me see only the human being,” Dr. Sargit Arbel Alon said as she emphasized the human connection that drives her work in the conflict zone. Dr. Alon, an Israeli obstetrician and gynecologist,...December 5, 2018 1736 0 -
Why states fail to understand the tribes
A woman is traveling with her camel in Baluchistan , Pakistan, Image Credit: Tariqsulemani//Wikimedia Commons I have been fascinated by the relationship between Muslim tribal societies living on the peripheries of modern states and central governments....November 10, 2018 1713 1 -
Claire Chambers – Making British-Pakistani connections through literary pursuits
In her intellectual curiosity that has taken her to lands and peoples far from her home, Dr Claire Chambers reflects the spirit of the British scholar-adventurer in the last century that drove the likes of Gertrude...October 28, 2018 1479 0 -
Sowing the seeds of intellectual understanding
Image Credit: Chatham House/Wikimedia Commons When Sushmita Kamboj joined my World of Islam class as a student two years ago, she spoke of the vast distances between Islam and Hinduism in India. Growing up in Yamunanagar,...May 12, 2018 1233 0 -
Where is our love for migratory birds?
Limosa lapponica and Thalasseus bergii, flying in to a high tide roost in Roebuck Bay in Western Australia, Credit: Mdk572 /Wikimedia Commons Our love for birds may be boundless – from our association with them as noble and...May 12, 2018 1262 0
