I met Basheer some 6 years ago when CAI began a massive water distribution project for about 30,000 internally displaced…

Cambodia is on my list of countries to visit for quite sometime and by the abundant grace of Allah (S),…

Deport, deport! Screams the immigration officer from behind the glass divider. Where is your work permit for Afghanistan? He keeps…

I arrived here in Mumbai after sleep deprived eight days in Afghanistan (trip report and photos by accompanying Amir Somji…

In the thirty-two years that I’ve called the United States home, I can recall only two incidents of bigotry that…

When as a teenager in 1979 I got a chance to visit London for the first time ever, I turned…

Port Au Prince (PAP), Haiti is not a nice place. The city is grimy, filthy, mosquito ridden, potholed roads abound,…

It is a beautiful morning outside my house here in Sanford, FL; clear blue sky, not a cloud in the…

The area around Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai is not very pedestrian friendly; certainly not a place to unnecessarily…

I got an avalanche of protests from several about the link to photographs on this writeup not working. It’s now…

Sirsi is in Uttar Pradesh, India, some six hours drive east of New Delhi. It is a poor mid-size village,…

I meet Habeeb at Dubai Airport Terminal One Lufthansa lounge; we begin chatting, killing time before flight call. The conversation…