Baraka

• Occupation: Dreamer & Seeker
• Location: San Francisco: The Most Beautiful City on Earth (TMBCE)

About Me

Pakistani-American Muslim woman, mama wannabe, dreamer, seeker, writer, thief of hearts, uberpoet, nation drifter, juice imbiber, style junkie, line crosser, reflective dweller, girl scout mint cookie, hip chick, & MS-warrior. Full-time human rights & responsibilities advocate. Married to my soulmate. Skirter of manhole covers to avoid being sucked into an alligator-infested underworld.

Paper or briefs?

Handmade paper. Calvin boy shorts.

Interests

• Exploring inner & outer landscapes
• family & friends
• chrysalis & metamorphosis
• art
• calligraphy
• interior design
• & architecture
• connecting the inner spiritual to the outward political.

Favorite Movies

• Wong Kar Wai
• Ang Lee
• Tarantino
• & Michael Moore films
• Amelie
• Gattaca
• Harold & Maude
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
• The Princess Bride
• Monsoon Wedding
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• The Matrix
• Indy Jones trilogy
• Star Wars 4 & 5
• LOTR XE.

Favorite Music

• Silence
• breezes
• beautiful lyrics & killer voices
• Qawwalis (NFAK
• Abida Parveen) & ghazals (Iqbal Bano
• Jagjit)
• world music (Youssou N'Dour
• Lila Downs)
• classical (Chopin
• Mozart)
• jazz (Coltrane) & blues (Billie!).

Favorite Books

• Dear Beloved Son (Al-Ghazali)
• Cracking India (Sidhwa)
• Dune (Herbert)
• E-mails from Scheherzade (Kahf)
• Cien Sonetos De Amor (Neruda)
• 100 Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez)
• Orientalism (Said)
• The Prophet (Gibran)
• A People's History of the US (Zinn)
• Autobiography of Malcolm X (Haley/X)
• Midnight's Children (Rushdie)
• The English Patient (Ondaatje)
• The Alchemist (Coelho)
• The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
• The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
• & am a sucker for gorgeous coffee table books
• Chomsky
• Jane Austen
• sci-fi fantasy
• & sufi/revolutionary/romantic poetry .

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