Hafsa Quraishi

5 days ago | wbur.org | Peter O'Dowd |Hafsa Quraishi |Kalyani Saxena

Almost 20 years ago, Mr. Darcy strode across a misty field in a loose white shirt and enough yearning to knock a legion of Jane Austen fans dead. All to tell Elizabeth Bennett, “You have bewitched me body and soul and I love ... I love … I love you.

3 weeks ago | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Hafsa Quraishi

Writers and authors are in an uproar over Meta using LibGen, one of the largest online pirated libraries, to train its AI.

2 months ago | npr.org | Robin Young |Hafsa Quraishi

A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office conducts a brief before an early morning operation on Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York.

Feb 6, 2024 | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Hafsa Quraishi

Before the war broke out in Gaza, 26-year-old Nisreen Shehade was working in a dental office and ran a decently successful baking business on the side. She sold her signature chocolate brownies and cookies to local customers in aesthetically-pleasing cardboard treat boxes labeled with her small-business sticker, “Nisreen’s Diary,” and tied with a simple piece of twine. Born and raised in Gaza, Shehade says baking was her passion. Now, it brings the self-taught chef no joy.

Nov 15, 2023 | wbur.org | Deepa Fernandes |Hafsa Quraishi

Helal Kaoud hugged her father and brother goodbye in late September as they set out on a trip to visit relatives in Gaza. At the time, she had no idea the long-awaited vacation would thrust her family into a nightmare. Esam Kaoud, a 52-year-old California resident, was taking his 20-year-old son, Ameer Kaoud, to see the family’s homeland for the first time. It was a homecoming for Esam, too; he had not visited his place of birth in two decades.