Asra Q. Nomani



Anthrax? Big deal

While a quaking American media blathers obsessively about being on the front lines of bioterrorism, a Pakistani newsroom goes calmly about its business after its own spore scare.


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A would-be martyr

Qaiser Nadeem, 20, longs for the day he is called to leave his video store and join the jihad -- fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan.


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At home with the Taliban

While U.S. bombs dropped on his country, a Taliban official and his two wives welcomed me into their living room and talked of marriage, music and his memories of dining in the World Trade Center's starry restaurant.


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Hate — and love — for the USA

My evening in a roomful of impassioned Muslim men was full of surprises. They looked me directly in the eye, though I am a woman. And they spoke of America as their hell, but also their heaven.


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Bad blood

A young, gay black man in West Virginia is murdered. Were his killers motivated by racism and homophobia -- or by a legacy of drugs, alcohol and habitual crime?


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