Here is a Newsday article on the exhibit America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far, at The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, for which I was the lead academic advisor. It’s a good chance to shout out my friends from high school. “Our goal is to have children deal with differences in a healthy, positive way and encourage them to be inquisitive while exploring the world instead of running away from its differences,” Rashid said, an experience not so different from his years growing up in Elmont.
Big Mira Nair fan here. Miss. Masala was fun, Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay, Vanity Fair. Ok, Kama Sutra (of all things!) was a snooze.
The Indians in East Africa have an interesting story. Two large movements of Indians, one to Africa, and the other to the Caribbean (from which my family arrived in the US). Gujuratis and Panjabis to Africa, Uttar Pradeshis and Biharis to the Caribbean. On a recent trip to India, some people knew which part of the dispora I was from based on the spelling of my surname.
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