April | 2011 | Abez sez Assalamualaikum!

Last Day of April

It’s been over two and a half years since I was thrown into the deep end of autism parenting and just over six months since I started AutismUAE, and while it’s impossible to say that you’ve heard it all, one can assume that they’ve heard a fair amount. But nothing I had ever heard before…

Kids these days…

Iman: Look momma, issa angry bird!

Muslim Matters on Sexual Harassment in Muslim Cultures

Hena Zuberi just published a great, awesome, relevant, necessary, important article about sexual harassment in the Muslim community, and I found myself typing a comment so long it could stand alone. And I think it should, because the more websites, the more people, the more Muslims talk about sexual harassment, the more people there will…

P is for poke, apparently.

(I am sitting at the dining table working on my computer, and suddenly I get a jabbing feeling in my left side.) Me: Iman! What are you doing? (Iman grins and holds up her pink pencil) Iman: I poking you! Me: Yes, I can see that. If you want to get my attention, say excuse…

Knee-high Theology

So I’m home again in Dubai, 32 weeks pregnant and horribly sick- I’ve spent the last four days more asleep than awake, if you can count passing out punctuated by coughing myself silly as sleeping. Today I get to see an ENT finally, Alhamdulillah. We’re getting ready to pack the kids into the car and…

How’s this for an update?

I’m sitting here waiting for the next interview to begin and thought I’d actually post something. Alhamdulillah, the trip is going well. Yesterday we held a 2 1/2 hour orientation for therapists and some seniors from a local center. After that we interviewed four of them, hopped into a taxi, and then went to the…

Live from Manila…

Wow, the Philippines looks a lot like Karachi- but with more shorts and flipflops and no donkeys. 🙂 And no one even stares. Which I am amazed and impressed by. Am here for one and a half more days of interviews and meetings, but I’ll try to update tomorrow if I can. 🙂

Y’all are invited!

April is Autism Awareness Month!

Because it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t slather my blog in as much autism as my daily life is slathered in, this month, I intend to post as much as possible about autism. Whether you want me to or not. :p So here I go. 🙂 First of all, there’s this picture gallery of…