Below is a small sampling of the stories I produced, reported and edited for Urdu VOA on the Pakistani and expat experience in the United States.
I sat down with Yasmin Hafeez, a Pakistani-American winner of the 2008 President's Education Award to find out what motivates her to excel.
While Sufism is practiced widely in South Asia, some of its core tenets remain shrouded in obscurity. Such as the use of the female voice in Sufi literature. Fortunately, Shamim Abbas Burney had been researching this subject for years, when I sat down to chat with her about her book 'The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual'.
H. M Naqvi rose to fame with his book 'Homeboy', sweeping literary awards and trophies at home and abroad with his story of three young Pakistani-American men in Post-9/11 New York. He sat down to chat with me about his inspiration and stylistic explorations in 2011.
Pakistani teachers visiting the US through a USAID mentoring program in 2011 sat down with me to talk about what they learned, and how they planned to use their proposed projects for education and community enrichment back home.
