Posted in desi, fun on February 28, 2008 | 37 Comments »
I thought I’d do what I thought might be a “witty” take on Stuff White People Like and adapt it to what Pakistani Americans like. With the many caveats that are necessary - these are stereotypes, they are not universally applicable, they have a class bias (I don’t fit them either - well, okay, not [...]
Posted in academic, fun on February 24, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Tis the season for academic interviews! From my personal experience, allow me to offer a bit of advice on what to do when invited for a campus interview:
Read carefully your brand new “free” business cards ordered off the internet. Do so especially before you hand one to a head of department and to all the [...]
Posted in desi, gender, poetry on February 15, 2008 | 17 Comments »
This is a poem that I’ve had hidden away for seven years. It tells the story of my own sister’s divorce in Pakistan, and the response from many on-lookers. There were sympathetic words too, but they were mostly muted - because no one wants to be on a losing side.
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DIVORCEE
Hi there.
What happened to you?
He broke [...]
Posted in Pakistan, race, religion on February 10, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I was nervous when I waited that cold morning in 1983 for Sister Rose. At 15, I was a senior student at school, at the Convent school in Lahore, established over 100 years ago by Catholic missionaries from abroad. Later that year, I would be taking my O-levels, sent over from Cambridge University, so [...]
Posted in Islam, USA, gender, social science on February 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Religion Dispatches website has launched today. My story, “A square yard of fabric makes a boring, foreign SAHM” has also been published. “How not to rescue Muslim women” is the most popular post so far!
