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“Becoming Bedouin” Again

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“Peace of Iraq’s Mothers” Online at Last

May 31, 2021February 8, 2022 maryahc

“Sid Ismahan” returns

February 27, 2021March 9, 2021 maryahc

Snow Memories

February 18, 2021June 6, 2021 maryahc

“Journaling Through Pandemic”

February 13, 2021February 15, 2021 maryahc

Making It

November 26, 2020November 30, 2021 maryahc

To Turkey or Not To Turkey

October 25, 2020October 31, 2020 maryahc

The Palisades and the Great Grey Bridge

October 15, 2020November 16, 2021 maryahc

“Cold Comfort” returns

September 20, 2020October 3, 2020 maryahc

Central Park and Shakespeare’s Garden

September 7, 2020September 15, 2020 maryahc

Exploring Cranford

July 13, 2020August 20, 2020 maryahc

Short Hills In the Trees

June 15, 2020 maryahc

“Sid Ismahan’s Brothers and Daughters”

June 12, 2020June 15, 2020 maryahc

“Halfway ‘Cross the World: Pandemic Missives”

April 26, 2020April 22, 2020 maryahc

Fast, Feast and Loneliness in a Time of COVID: Check in extra with your Muslim friends

March 21, 2020April 11, 2020 maryahc

Because We Love Our Mothers Every Day

January 27, 2020January 28, 2020 maryahc

The Death of Kobe Bryant and the Slow Rise of Positive Masculinity

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 maryahc

The Men in the Shirtsleeves

November 6, 2019November 7, 2019 maryahc

Cheryl Strayed Picked ME!

September 25, 2019April 20, 2020 maryahc

Is the “Peace of Iraq’s Mothers” even possible anymore?

September 2, 2019May 15, 2020 maryahc

The History of Labor Day Is the History of Me

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 maryahc

The Dark Side of one Daughter of the American Revolution

May 31, 2019 maryahc

Walt Whitman, the Introvert, and the Spider

May 24, 2019May 16, 2020 maryahc

Ramadan: A Time for Coming Together

April 15, 2019June 3, 2020 maryahc

“That Other Hijab Story” redux

February 26, 2019March 15, 2019 maryahc

“Trust On the Nile”

January 21, 2019January 19, 2019 maryahc

Kafir? Heathen? Shaytan?

January 5, 2019 maryahc

on New Years Resolutions

December 28, 2018 maryahc

More “Friends With Goats”

November 25, 2018November 30, 2021 maryahc

When We Celebrate Thanksgiving

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