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postscript Due to popular demand, and because I r…

May 11th, 2004 · No Comments

postscript
Due to popular demand, and because I really want to update but can’t since I have highly annoying papers to write, I’m instead posting my article that was published in the South Asian magazine on campus. Long-time readers may be interested to know it’s an edited and slightly more formalized version of this post from […]

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Tags: NineToFive outside the 925 · Rockstar and Crescent · Salaam Namaste

the problem lies elsewhere, always, of course

April 26th, 2004 · No Comments

the problem lies elsewhere, always, of course
My friend, H, is a Cuban-American convert to Islam. His roommate is an international student from Saudi Arabia. They’re both good-natured and funny, and most of the time they get along really well, but once in a while they’ll burst out with the arguing and aggravate each other to […]

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Tags: All-Star Crackstar Squad · Salaam Namaste

umbrella terms My response to being called desi…

April 26th, 2004 · No Comments

umbrella terms
My response to being called desi, the word for people from the South Asian subcontinent:
“I may qualify, but I don’t identify.”
On the other hand, if you were to refer to me as a Pakistani (American) Muslim, we shouldn’t have any problems.
The end.

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“And those foremost (in faith) will be foremost (in the hereafter)” [56:10]

January 27th, 2004 · 2 Comments

I, who supposedly never cry, watched my face crumble in the mirror as I stood before it early yesterday morning, arms raised in the act of wrapping a scarf around my head, my mother standing next to me as she relayed the message.
I left the house less than ten minutes later, and cried all the […]

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Tags: Loss and laments and letting go · Salaam Namaste

Not what i was planning on posting about – but, hi, i’m back

December 15th, 2003 · 3 Comments

Yesterday, we went to this wedding shindig thing about 90 minutes away. Although I’d been to fourteen weddings in the course of the eighteen months I lived in Pakistan, this was the first Pakistani wedding in the U.S. that I can remember attending. ‘Twas fun, even though we didn’t know most of the people. Actually, […]

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Tags: Conversations and Encounters · Salaam Namaste

Ramadan mubarak to you all

October 27th, 2003 · No Comments

For all my joking that my mental age is in the single digits (and, hey, it is, okay), all I really want is to be fourteen again.
I was still two weeks shy of my thirteenth birthday the year I traveled to Pakistan, in the midst of Ramadan, for what would ultimately become an eighteen-month stay. […]

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Tags: Loss and laments and letting go · Rockstar and Crescent · Salaam Namaste

Tales from the kitchen (a.k.a. the chicken wars)

September 28th, 2003 · No Comments

My dad, baffled, a week ago: Yasminay, how can you be my daughter, and not know how to multi-task?Me: I’m sorry, but I just think there’s just something wrong with the idea of cooking chicken and eating ice cream at the same time.
This was after he came home from the grocery store and gleefully presented […]

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Tags: Casa420 and Familia · Salaam Namaste

I was talking to a Muslim brother a while back, an…

March 25th, 2003 · No Comments

I was talking to a Muslim brother a while back, and he was telling me about his upcoming summer trip to Bangladesh. He was born and raised in the U.S., and it’s been 8 years since he’s been back in Bangladesh. Naturally, everyone thinks he’s going back just so he can get married, but he […]

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