What I Consider My Home Town
I live in one of the most beautiful and vibrant cities in the world, San Francisco, yet many of my most meaningful life experiences still happen in Phoenix, Arizona where much of my family resides. I visited my mother in Phoenix a few weeks ago to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha, as I have done for many years,…
The immigrant experience – from scarcity to having choices
You know that feeling of terror when you first land in America as an immigrant? The feeling of “how am I going to feed my family when I don’t know the language or the culture or the ways things work here?” The feeling of “I don’t know how much things cost or how to buy…
