A personal essay in which novelist Sorayya Khan maps her family’s path from Islamabad to Solvay.
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Raising Brown Boys in Post-9/11 America
Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Guy Gunaratne on the ‘Push-Pull of Ancestry and Meaning’ in London
Guy Gunaratne’s Man Booker-longlisted “In Our Mad and Furious City” recognizes multiple, overlapping versions of London and its inhabitants, examining the ways violence can bubble up through the city’s fissures.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
A Music So Beautiful the Birds Fell from the Trees
How two exiled Sufi musicians returned to make traditional music in postwar Kabul, Afghanistan.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
On the Frontline of Disaster: The Volunteer Ambulance Drivers of Karachi, Pakistan
The Edhi Foundation volunteer ambulance service drivers work for $1.30 US per day, collecting the dead and wounded in the streets of Karachi, Pakistan.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Father’s Adventure Was My Terror
With the decision to take his 13-year-old daughter on a dangerous drive to Peshawar, Diana Whitney’s charismatic father became a regular fallible human in her eyes.
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
Hemingway’s Last Girl
A lot of women loved Hemingway. Should you?
Posted inStory
Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Father’s Adventure Was My Terror
Diana Whitney recalls traveling to Pakistan with her father at 13, and the dangers of a day trip to Peshawar that he was cautioned against taking.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Father’s Adventure Was My Terror
With the decision to take his 13-year-old daughter on a dangerous drive to Peshawar, Diana Whitney’s charismatic father became a regular fallible human in her eyes.
