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Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

The Accessible Diva: Musings On My Eventual Demise At the Start of a New Year (ish)

It is that time of year again, another new year begins, a sense of renewal, second chances and of course a fitness regimen that will…

Dec 22, 2020

The Accessible Diva: Musings On My Eventual Demise At the Start of a New Year (ish)

Dec 22, 2020

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

How I Start My Day (Times of India)

This piece was originally published on November 3rd, 2019 in the Times of India

Nov 3, 2019

How I Start My Day (Times of India)

Nov 3, 2019

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Bracing After the Embrace

In the wake of the worst terrorist attack in New Zealand history Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern showed us how a leader is supposed to…

Mar 26, 2019

Bracing After the Embrace

Mar 26, 2019

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Cognitive Class Dissonance

When I would visit Dhaka in the summers growing up, my family stayed in their middle class enclave in Mirpur, near the big stadium and…

Jan 31, 2019

Cognitive Class Dissonance

Jan 31, 2019

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Alexander Detained

There were no stomping black boots or whistles. No lights were shone in our faces. We were not wrenched out of our beds and shoved onto…

Jun 29, 2018

Alexander Detained

Jun 29, 2018

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

My piece on Mahmoud Darwish: The voice of a people

May 16, 2018

May 16, 2018

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Between the Kabaah Sharif and a Hard Place

May 2, 2018

May 2, 2018

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Why I can’t veil

Hijab means curtain, for privacy, presumably between me and the world. I’m a writer who mines her imagination and observations for stories…

Mar 30, 2018

Why I can’t veil

Mar 30, 2018

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Am I Comfortably Numb to Bigotry?

Though there is a powerful movement now to tell African American stories with truth, I feel Muslim Americans still suffer from cultural…

Mar 20, 2018

Am I Comfortably Numb to Bigotry?

Mar 20, 2018

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

The Tumult of My Enemies

Bereft. I felt bereft. That was the word that was in my head. I knew what the word meant, but it was inappropriate for the situation I was…

Mar 7, 2018

The Tumult of My Enemies

Mar 7, 2018

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

Sharbari Z. Ahmed

I’m a scattalogical, Prosecco swilling Muslim American trying to tell good stories. Long suffering writer, eternal optimist.

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