Many people didn’t know what Pakistan was. Right after 9/11, they did…
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We need to be developing global citizens who can engage with ideas and issues, make decisions and enact positive change…
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My teachers weren’t interested that my life had been uprooted to return to a culture that I had little understanding of…
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My form teacher peered over his spectacles at me like I was an exotic bird and gestured for me to take a seat…
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I loved that 'the girls part' of the song meant we got to climb over the lyrics and sing a higher harmony while the boys peeled the words apart down low…
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I corrected her pronunciation. She tried again. I corrected her again. She said she would stick to her own pronunciation of my name…
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I have traveled to over 118 countries over the last four years because I could work online and earned a steady income even if I was spending one week in Lebanon and another week in Oman…
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Our version of a corsage was a motia flower and though street vendors would sell these readily, they were not durable enough to hang around the hands of people as they danced…
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I knew that people could look at us and know we were not from there, yet I tried desperately to fit in in this place that I called home...
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