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essays
"Freedmen's Town Lives!". CITE 91, A Hand-Made Issue, March 2013.
Poet-in-Residence for Poets & Writers, October 2012: October 1. October 9, October 15, October 22.
Op-Ed: Observing social change, in Houston and Karachi, Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX, January 29, 2012.
"Slipping Between Borders." South Asian Review, Special Issue, Pakistani Creative Writing in English, 31.3 pp. 106-11. Co-guest eds. Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Waseem Anwar. October 2011.
"Devouring Mangoes with Gusto." Dawn Books & Authors. 14 August, 2011.
"Think Global/Act Local." Houston Chronicle Op-Ed. 30 January, 2011.
"The poor are the hardest hit by devastation in Pakistan." Houston Chronicle, 12 September, 2010.
"For Choice." in an on-line roundtable Pens and Swords. The Mantle, 26 January, 2010.
"Education is the key to peace." Houston Chronicle, 17 October, 2009, B-15.
"Sisters in Struggle: Karachi & Houston." CITE Magazine. Rice Design Alliance, 79 Summer 2009: 9.
“Heartbeat.” Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers. 32.1 (2009): 235-240.
“Lives: Karachi’s Winter Days.” New York Times Sunday Magazine, 30 March 2008.
“Street Signs: Karachi Graffiti.” Words Without Borders blog, 14 February 2008.“Kalidas in NAPA in Karachi.” Words Without Borders blog. 16 January 2008.
"Calling All Asia." ASIA: Magazine of Asian Literature. 2.2 (2007): 375-379.
“The Forgotten Earthquake: Kashmir 2005.” Ellipsis. 1:10, 42-43 (2006).
“Making Peace.” Ellipsis 1:9, 31-33 (2006).
“Standing/ Falling in Karachi/Houston.” Ellipsis, 1:8, 18-19 (2006).
“Fighting for Ourselves and for Peace.” The News on Sunday, 6 August, 2006.
“Displaced Lives: The High Cost of Beauty.” The News on Sunday, July 3, 2006.
“Displaced Lives: Dancing for Freedom.” The News on Sunday, Jun 3, 2006.
Displaced Lives: A Wild Boar Chase.” The News on Sunday, May 6, 2006.
“Displaced Lives: Changing Plays.” The News on Sunday, Mar 26, 2006.
“Displaced Lives: Standing / Falling in Karachi / Houston."The News on Sunday, Feb 26, 2006
“Balakot: Lost in the Earthquake’s Rubble” in Pakistan Chronicle (Houston, TX), December 16, 2005.
“Changing Plays” in Chowrangi, Volume 1, Issue 3, October 2005.
“Samosas/Tamales: Reminiscence on a Chicano-Pakistani marriage” in Chowrangi, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2005.
“The Flower Pot” in The News on Sunday, January 2004.
“Making Noise—Journalling with Young Women” in Inprint Magazine, Houston, TX, Fall, 2002.
“Recovering My Voice” in GOOD, ed. Polly Koch, December 2000. Essay commissioned by Toni Beauchamp.
“Travel Diary from Oaxaca and Huatulco” in The News on Sunday, August 1, 1999, p.31.
“Uncovering the Magic of Santa Fe, New Mexico” in The News on Sunday, March 28, 1999, p.28.
“Writing to Raise Connections Between Teachers and Students” in SWAP, Center for Education, Rice University, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, Fall-Spring 1998-99, p.4.
“Teaching from the Heart” in SWAP, Center for Education, Rice University, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, Fall-Spring 1998-99, p.1.
“Ever Seen a Folk Dance Condemned?” in The News on Friday (Karachi, Pakistan), July 28, 1995, p.36.
Edited and wrote EOP Bulletin., Austin: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Vol. 5 and 6, 1990-1991.
“A Desire for Change” in Subha: A Newsletter on Women and Development (eds. T. Ahmed and S. Hussain). Karachi: Shirkat-Gah Publications. Vol. II, December, 1988, pp. 6-9.
Weekly columns in The Star. Karachi: Pakistan Herald Publications. August, 1986-August, 1987.