About Me

I spent August 2014 in Sharjah and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates visiting my in-laws but also getting to know the migrant women and men who live in the Gulf. As I toured malls and hotels -- that's almost all there is to do in the summer with kids when the heat outside is

I went on vacation to Europe this summer to see my relatives and came out with a story. That's what happens when journos go on vacation. Even our families can't rest. But the story I came across had to be written from a personal perspective because several of my younger relatives were turning to extremist

I've seen violent death and I was able to go on scarred but functional. But the death looming before me these days is the hardest to bear. It's a family picture with the patriarch slowly fading. The head, the arms, the body. You try to stop the eraser with your memories but there's no stopping

-Learning to speak to Italians via Google Translate. I got dozens of emails in Italian from readers who were touched by the book. In Italy, the book was published hardcover with a cover of a woman in niqab and titled The Afghan Wife. I had nothing to do with any of it except the words

Afghans who read my article “How Iran controls Afghanistan” for Foxnews.com in January critiqued the piece, and the Hazaras took particular offense.  I promised a response -- it took awhile due to health issues I’ve been struggling with, but here it is. My article is a short opinion piece focused on how Iran influences Afghanistan