Personal Essays
More Than Just a Dating App, for Rest of World, October 2020
After Not Reading a Book for 35 Years, How My Father Became a Reader for LitHub, June 2017
Frizz Ease is Still the Best Hair Product You Can Buy for Racked, June 2017
Neighbors for Design*Sponge, November 2015
Damage for The Big Roundtable, January 2015
I Was The Only Brown Person in a Dallas Wedding for Medium’s Archipelago, November 2014
The Adventures of a Pakistani in Texas for Narratively, January 2014
Radio/podcasts
Cricketers Lead The Way for India and Pakistan for Foreign Policy, The Long Game, November 2021
He Is All Pine and I am Apple Orchard, for This American Life, Episode 641, March 2018
Essay B for This American Life, Episode 625, September 2017
Who Do We Think We Are for This American Life, Episode 586, May 2016
Mariya for The Heart, Season 2 Episode 12, May 2016
Reporting
How Lays Flavors Took Over the World’s Snack Aisles for Bon Appetit, April 2022
Can data help quench the thirst of Pakistan’s most populous city? for MIT Tech Review, December 2021
A coordinated online attack has forced some organizers behind Pakistan’s Women’s March into hiding, for Rest of World, March 2021
Crocodile Tears: Taliban Attacks on Sufi Shrines Lead to Unlikely Victims for Al Jazeera America, December 2014
Pakistan: Where Consipiracy Theories Can Cost a Child’s Life for GlobalPost, February 2014
Infanticide is on the Rise in Pakistan for Al Jazeera America, January 2014
Buying Condoms in Pakistan is Hard, for VICE Magazine, September 2013
This Condom Ad in Pakistan is Considered Racy and is Creating a Giant Uproar, for GlobalPost, August 2013
Afflicted: Pakistan’s Children Hit Hard by Measles Epidemic, for GlobalPost, June 2013
High Turnout in Pakistan’s Landmark Elections Despite Violence, for GlobalPost, May 2013
Death on a Beach, for GlobalPost, March 2013
In Conservative Pakistan, Everybody Must Get Stoned for GlobalPost, February 2013
The Plight of Shiites in Pakistan, for GlobalPost, February 2013
Pakistan’s Terror Tax for GlobalPost, February 2013
Pakistan Finally Catches on to Witness Protection, for GlobalPost, December 2013