Personal Essays Salma Ali Personal Essays Salma Ali

If the hat fits…

The traditional way to celebrate the end of a cancer treatment is to ring a bell, but my way is to experience a story… How do people survive such heartbreak, let alone create something beautiful out of it?

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Personal Essays Salma Ali Personal Essays Salma Ali

Reaching for hope

It’s hard to write a ‘humanKIND’ newsletter when we are witnessing daily acts of inhumanity. Perhaps what I can offer is a place of refuge—a place to gather to dare to hope, as we continue to agitate for peace.

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Personal Essays Salma Ali Personal Essays Salma Ali

My Abbu

My father-in-law was always a man of few words. But even without words, his presence was felt in any situation, through his dignity, solemnity, and elegant demeanor.

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Personal Essays Salma Ali Personal Essays Salma Ali

We’re all storytellers

I’m not sure how the conversation with the Pakistani High Commissioner in London started with my telling him the story of how Arif and I first met and he poured the whole bottle of chilli pepper into the curry he was cooking—not the usual way to start a formal meeting with a high-level diplomat you’re meeting for the first time!

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