by Sarah | May 29, 2020 | Other Publications
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 over...
by Sarah | May 21, 2020 | Other Publications
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...
by Sarah | May 20, 2020 | Other Publications
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...
by Sarah | May 19, 2020 | Bloomberg Pursuits
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...
by Sarah | May 6, 2020 | Condé Nast Traveler
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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