Like hundreds of millions of people around the world, I’ve been hooked on a blockbuster Turkish dizi—series— on Netflix called Dirilis Ertugrul. In recent weeks, thanks to a new Urdu-dubbed version being released in time for Ramadan, Pakistan has been taken...
After years of globe-trotting, which has led me to spend parts of Ramadan in places like Zanzibar and Madrid, I’ve been getting used to a homebound Ramadan spent circling my New York apartment this month. I wrote my reflections for the Christian Science...
At the height of the pandemic in April, Brooklyn imam Ahmed Ali Uzir was conducting as many as nine janazahs, or funeral prayers, in a row. Photographer Lori Hawkins spent a few days following him last month and I interviewed the imam and wrote the story to accompany...
Before travel ground to a halt in March, I’d been planning a spring trip to London, for what would have been my first time across the pond in 30 years. That trip has obviously been postponed, but for Bloomberg Pursuits I plotted my dream curry crawl across the...
With billions of people watching world wide, a beautifully staged song sequence in a Bollywood film set in an exotic locale has the power to transform a destination’s tourism fortunes. For Condé Nast Traveler, I compiled a list of 11 Bollywood movies you can...
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