Dating, sexuality, and physical intimacy are taboo topics within the largely religious South Asian and Muslim cultures. This is not to say that South Asians and Muslims do not date or have sex outside marriage or that members of these populations are all inherently religious. Quite the contrary...
The Big Sick(2017): A Pakistani-American comedian falls in love with a grad student, but their relationship is tested when she falls into a coma. The Vow(2012): A newlywed couple's lives are changed forever when a car accident leaves the wife with amnesia. ...
Popular apps are beginning to look (and function) increasingly like copies of each other, and different people have even sued the apps for being more involved with getting customers hooked on swiping than serving to them discover love. If the thought of matching with a mutually ambitious CEO, ...
It has been well established that both innate and adaptive immune responses are required for host control of tuberculosis infection [2], [3]. In tuberculosis pathogenesis, the host cellular immune response determines whether an infection is arrested as latent or persistent infection or progresses to...
Many Asians continue to embrace arranged marriages in the sub-continent. Even in the UK, modern arranged marriages involve a variety of matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own version to suit modern identities and ambitions.
Pakistanis are not Arab and nor do we want to be Arab (apart from a few fringe people who think that Muhammad bin Qasim was the first Pakistani). We are South Asian Muslims. South Asian Islam has historically been quite different from the Arabic version. For example, Arabs don’t worship...
there has been a small rise in the number of British South Asian people working at managerial, administration and governance levels of English football. However, academic research has, to date, qualitatively and quantitatively overlooked the experiences of British South Asians in senior governance and...
beef tacos and veal stew because there isn’t a halal restaurant I know of who will serve it up the way I’m used to eating it. I have also gathered a small collection of trusted companies and stores that offer not onlyhalalproducts, but ones that are also healthy for us. This has ...
These are thriving businesses with spreading links to greater Los Angeles and beyond. " L. A. is America"s first true world city, " says Safi Qureshey, a Pakistani immigrant whose company, AST Research, Inc. , has become the third largest U. S. computer exporter. You hear a lot of ...
In 1971, Clemmesen and Alsbirk reported high rates of PACG in Greenlandic Inuit (Clemmesen and Alsbirk, 1971). Since then, several studies have shown that PACG prevalence in Eskimos (also called Inuit, who are anthropologically linked to the Sino-Mongolian people) is about 20–40 times ...