Being a cross-cultural parent in Washington can mean teaching your children the Koran — and then carpooling them to hip-hop class.

[My father passed away on March 28th, 2019. Thank you for reading his story, which I wrote three years ago on his 80th birthday.]Today, is my father’s 80th birthday.

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,

Asif Shaikh sits behind his black granite table in his office in Ahmedabad, India, discussing fabrics, colors and designs with the mother of a groom.

In an effort to share the essence of the month of Ramadan with my children, we’ve been keeping a “30 days” blog for the past three years

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

It’s predawn on the first day of Ramadan, 2009. My husband and I are seated, with our two children and other family members, in my parents’ suburban New Jersey kitchen

This year, Ramadan started with a bowl of oatmeal chock-full of blueberries and walnuts My 13-year old daughter Saanya woke up early to set the table and hang