Categories sastra

April is the Cruelest Month

April is the cruelest month, with cherry flowers reeking of asthma, and finches chirping to my wheezing. Wheeze… chirp! Wheeze… chirp! To a dumpster by the sycamore tree revived once more by the season, I throw a white trash bag with pounds of crumpled facial tissues with fresh traces of…

Categories American Islam

Burqa-ed Student Searched “Because [of] Boston…”

Muslim Garb Gets a Student Singled Out  in a Festival Let me quote a little bit  from the news story I found on the Houston Chronicles: When a fire alarm went off Saturday at Westchase Marriott, disrupting a “master class” being held by Houston WorldFest, the organization’s founder…