For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Pakistani-born immigrant to Mesquite, Texas; Professor of English at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas. Childhood in Pakistan and Dubai; education in Catholic Convent in Karachi, Dubai and in England and Richland College in Dallas, Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas; speaks English and Urdu; religion is Muslim; worked as a journalist for The News by Jang Publishing, covering stories on poverty and child abuse; legally immigrated via marriage; long-distance relationship from United States to Pakistan; life in America as a Pakistani immigrant; obtained college degree up to and including the Doctoral degree in United States; raising children as Muslims and Americans; perceptions of September 11, 2001 and being profiled as a possible terrorist; embracing of Muslim religion and adapting dress style.