by Sarah | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog, Khan Artist
This piece is all in good fun. For a slightly more serious look at how Muslims around the world observe Ramadan, check out my piece at Travel + Leisure. Inside My Hungry Head On Saturday, August 22, Muslims across the U.S. stopped eating. That’s the day we began...
by Sarah | May 8, 2009 | Blog, Khan Artist
Update: This essay was recently published in the New York Press – check it out! I knew he was sketchy as soon I saw him clambering up the steps of the bus. Slightly hunched over, the man slithered his way down the aisle, shifty eyes darting from seat to seat,...
by Sarah | Mar 23, 2009 | Blog, Khan Artist
UPDATE: this essay now appears in the travel anthology The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35. My grandparents in India live on a tidy little estate called Palm Grove. It’s a whitewashed house with a red Spanish-style tiled roof, a marble...
by Sarah | Jun 3, 2008 | Blog, Khan Artist
On a crisp spring night last month, seven girls, 15 bags, 12 cereal bars, and six digital cameras (including one rather hardcore Nikon SLR) embarked from JFK on a whirlwind two-week expedition. The madcap events that transpired have since been chronicled in upwards of...
by Sarah | Feb 28, 2008 | Blog, Khan Artist
There remains a near-extinct species within the South Asian diaspora, one whose plight is rarely championed in the world forums of… wherever such plights are usually championed. Nary a petition, protest, or celebrity-heavy concert exists in its honor; social activists...
by Sarah | Jan 30, 2008 | Blog, Khan Artist
Cab Culture 101 On the streets of Manhattan, visitors are easily detected by the manner in which they struggle to hail taxis: their I-Heart-NY-bag-laden arms flail wildly from the safety of the sidewalk as they direct shrill screeches of “Tax-EE! Tax-EE!” toward any...
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