Culture

Pakistani Dramas Reflection of Pakistani Life? Crazy.

March 1, 2009

For those of you who don’t know, Dish Network offers a variety of international channels that many Pakistani and Indians in the West salivate over. We have about 3 or 4 of those channels ourselves, as my mom watches a lot of Pakistani dramas. The siblings and I don’t really care for these dramas because [...]

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“Where Are You From?”

January 28, 2009

I was on the MUNI Metro last week (see previous entry) when a guy sitting close to me asked me a question I dread: “Where are you from?” No “hi”, “hello”, “salaam” or anything before. Just “Where are you from?” I don’t like that question and it’s hard for me to explain exactly why. The [...]

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Am I Ready to Go Back?

October 30, 2008

Beginning now, I will introduce a new feature in this blog, a once a year entry in which I ponder about whether or not I am ready to back to Pakistan. This time last year, my family and I were in Pakistan. I spent more than $1,500 and 2.5 weeks of my life to go [...]

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Trying to Find an Identity

August 22, 2008

I recently read the book How Does it Feel to be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America. It was a pretty good book in which the author, Moustafa Bayoumi talked with Arab youth from Brooklyn to discuss their life in this post-9/11 world. One thing that got me was that a few of [...]

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Adventures in Arabic (Part 2)

August 12, 2008

Previously, I wrote about taking my first Arabic class at Pacific Arabic Resources in SF. After I finished this first class, Introduction to Arabic, I moved on to Modern Standard Arabic 1, the next class in the series. Today was the last day of MSA 1 and I’m moving onto MSA 2, which starts in [...]

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Today is…

June 6, 2008

Image from iMuslim

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Top 5

May 19, 2008

Here are the Top 5 questions I was asked during and after my cousin’s wedding: “So when are you getting married?” “Are you getting married soon?” “Why don’t you want to get married?” “When is it going to be your time?” “Do you have any plans to get married?” And, well, you get the point [...]

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Simple Yet Elegant

May 19, 2008

In the end, it was a simple wedding. There was no mehendi party, no ‘hangama’ so to speak. Meaning, no singing and dancing the night before. Everyone got to know one another instead, with the two sides of the family mingling. The day of the wedding, my cousin looked absolutely stunning in her cream and [...]

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Falling off the Comics Wagon with Y: The Last Man

April 12, 2008

Years ago, I used to read Superman comic books. One comic came out every week and I got all of them. I did that for 5 and half years. While I never stopped being a Superman fan, I didn’t want to keep reading because the weekly comics just didn’t hold my interest anymore. However, reading [...]

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Streets of Karachi

April 10, 2008

So Flickr just added the ability for pro users to upload videos up to 90 seconds. This works for me as I don’t really want to use YouTube for the things I’ve taped using my digital camera and I can’t bring myself to upload them to Facebook. Most of videos are of my nephew but [...]

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