
Pakistan on the Potomac
“Being a cross-cultural parent in Washington can mean teaching your children the Koran — and then carpooling them to hip-hop…
December 1, 2018“Being a cross-cultural parent in Washington can mean teaching your children the Koran — and then carpooling them to hip-hop…
December 1, 2018Each Ramadan for the past seven years, I’ve been keeping a blog to share the essence of the month.…
June 23, 2017“This annual spiritual journey is boot camp for my soul.” It’s predawn on the first day of Ramadan, 2009.…
July 1, 2010On Saturday, we gathered in our kitchens via zoom for our first ‘KindSoup for the Soul’. The soup of…
November 23, 2020As a teenager growing up in Pakistan, Tusif Ahmad would take a van from Rawalpindi to Islamabad to visit…
August 24, 2020KindWorks is an organization that promotes community and service through organizing daily volunteer opportunities based in the Washington, D.C.…
April 17, 2020A group of teens from DC area high schools, part of a nonprofit called Project Turquoise (PT), traveled to…
January 5, 2020“We believe that each one of us can make a difference, right now. We may not be able to…
June 28, 2019Zayd tutored English and Math and coached soccer at a camp for refugee students organized by the International Rescue Committee…
June 26, 2019This is George, outside his childhood home in Mclean. His mom Evelyn lived here for 65 years, until…
September 27, 2018Blanche Porway, a Holocaust survivor, would have been 95 years old next month; she passed away a few weeks…
April 13, 2018It was New Year’s eve, and my daughter Saanya and I were at Skaramangas camp outside Athens, Greece…
June 20, 2017Athens, Greece We met Fahim the first evening we arrived in Athens. He is a professional soccer player, and used…
June 1, 2017Raghad Bushnaq has been helping people in need in informal ways for at least a dozen years, but when…
May 30, 2017I first met Nader, 42, when KindWorks, a nonprofit I help lead, organized a welcome dinner for recently arrived…
May 28, 2017At a time in this country when even the sight of Arabic writing can make some people nervous, Aadil…
April 27, 2017As many of us are enjoying our summer holidays, some traveling abroad, others staying closer to home, I have…
August 4, 2016Abdul Sattar Edhi, arguably the world’s greatest and least known humanitarian, passed away last Friday; he was 88 years…
July 19, 2016