On our last soup making session, Saanya asked us to share our favorite memories with our grandmothers in the kitchen.

Kindness is not going to make the pandemic go away, but it's definitley going to make the lives of people who are suffering a little bit easier

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESalma Hasan Ali Named Finalist for the March of Dimes Heroines of Washington Awards WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 25, 2019)– Salma Hasan Ali,

Saanya took some amazing photos of laundry; I'm not sure why they moved me so much, but I wanted to share them. I guess there's something about the feeling of clean clothes, no matter how gritty the circumstance.

SaanyaNani and I have always had a special relationship. I was writing her a thank you card today that started out being for her graduation present,

My SunshineThe minute you were born, in Geneva, Papa held you and you looked at the world around you so intensely with the most luminous eyes, we started calling

This year has been the most difficult I’ve faced. Between parents’ illness and surgery, death in our extended family, and some things I don’t have the courage to write about yet,

Tonight, we had a “leftar” — a wonderful concept that I read about in Green Muslims Ramadan tool-kit, where you use your leftovers to make iftaar and dinner.

Making moon and star cookies during Ramadan has become a tradition my kids and I look forward to each year. We started several years ago, when we finally found a moon