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I don’t remember how old I was when I read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but I do remember how I felt. A young girl, growing up in Pakistan, I remember asking Daddy
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"Daadi, can you read me a story," my three-year old granddaughter handed me a picture book she brought from her pre-school library. I looked at the title. 'Ramadan'. Feeling pleased with her choice,
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“The water in the shower is not hot enough,” my husband said as he stepped out of the bathroom.
Disappointed?
I had just doused my hair with oil,
My Downton Abbey in Pakistan
Mummy & Daddy in the 1950s
My parents were not rich, but we did have a Carson and a Mrs. Patmore. In Pakistan, domestic help was the norm—still is. And I am talking middle-class. Aurangzeb—our Carson equivalent—was the valet,
Read moreA Church Holds Quran Recital
Only in America! T'was the Sunday before Christmas, when Rev. K. Karpin asked if I could read from the chapter of Mary in the Quran, at the Celebration of Worship
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