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Today, Afghans who cried for justice across the globe after Farkhunda’s March killing in Kabul were thrown a bone. Farkhunda, a student of Islam, was beaten and burned to death by a young mob in Afghanistan’s capital after she was wrongly accused of burning the Quran. The attack was captured on video and posted on

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