general interest
Ingenuity and Innovations series
When Metalsmiths Found Their Groove ~ AramcoWorld magazine, September-October 2023
Pistachios' History of Graft ~ AramcoWorld magazine, July-August 2023
Bridging Lyres and Lutes ~ AramcoWorld magazine, May-June 2023
Ibn al-Haytham: Testing is Believing ~ AramcoWorld magazine, March-April 2023
Kohl Eyeliner: More Than Meets the Eye ~ AramcoWorld magazine, Jan-Feb 2023
Book chapters
“Physically Wounded and Injured Warriors and Their Families: The Long Journey Home" in War Trauma and Its Wake: Expanding the Circle of Healing
edited by Raymond Scurfield and Katherine Platon (Rutledge, Taylor & Francis Group: 2012)
(click here for more information)
Chapters tracing the history and experience of women and older workers in the US workplace in
The American Mosaic: An In-Depth Report on the Future of Diversity at Work
by Anthony Patrick Carnevale and Susan Carol Stone (McGraw-Hill, 1995)
Select features from our own backyard. . .
Christian Science Monitor
Preserving archaeological sites, historic buildings and artwork -- what goes into it and why it’s important (cover story Dec. 5, 2016)
How life has changed in the US for people with disabilities -- and why this is good for everyone (cover story Nov. 17, 2014)
People with disabilities want to participate in the arts -- and a growing number of programs make this possible
Does a person’s criminal act negate any good he may have also done?
A Fake Medal of Honor or Purple Heart: Is It Free Speech?
blog contributions to the "Little Bill Clinton* project, 2008:
Musing on the scrutinized and scrutinizers
The power of the Ditmar dollar
A thread from the refugee camp
How some clever DC commuters slug it to work
Routine mid-life crisis leads one woman to kayak in Greenland
The new face of international affairs
The etiquette of putting thoughts on paper
Fossil hunters leave no rock unturned
Pleasure reading: How people find time for books
Roots of new languages
How free and enslaved blacks lived in Colonial New England
Al Jazeera America
Learning to save Malawi’s heritage
Washington Post
On the Trail of the Slug -- Sunday Style feature on an endangered commuting animal
(10 Aug 1997)
Far Eastern Economic Review
Feng Shui makes inroads in the US
Call of the Urchin -- a thriving export in Maine
(23 Jan 1997)
Southern Comfort - Indian family runs motel in Mississippi
(26 Sept 1996)
Zen, California style - profile of teacher Joko Beck
(August 14, 1995)
Brave-and Battered: Abuse Turns South Asian Women’s New Lives Upside Down in US (pdf)
(11 Aug 1994)
Eunuch on the High Seas
(13 Oct 1994)
Wall Street Journal
Japanese Art, Brazilian Flair -- Gracie ju-jitsu in the US
(1-2 Nov 1996)
Bringing Asia to Americans -- Vishakha Desai at Asia Society
(18-19 Feb 1994)
Gallerie International
Myth and Reality: Some American Experiences
(Vol. 2, No 1, 1999)
Military Lifestyle
Marshall: The Private General
(Feb 1995)
. . . and from overseas
AramcoWorld magazine
Ibn al-Haytham: testing is Believing
Kohl eyeliner: more than meets the eye
Christian Science Monitor
A young architect in Ulan Bataar makes
a difference in the ger districts
The public rights of way in the UK makes for great rambling
An unexpected sight on Spain’s Costa del Sol: a giant stupa
A nurturing place on the border of despair
Maiden Voyages
Croatia -- Witnessing the Healing (Spring 1997)
Military Lifestyle
Assignment Croatia: a MASH unit in the Balkans (March 1995 - pdf)
National Geographic News Service
After Latest of Many Sieges, Dubrovnik Rebuilds (12 July 1995) published in The Columbian
Poles Battle Nature to Protect Salt Mine
(7 June 1995) published in Los Angeles Times
Tourists Take Their Toll on Turkish Treasure
(2 February 1995) published in Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Landlocked City of Pearls (31 May 1992)
Corlorful Carpets of Yugoslavia (8 June 1986)
Wall Street Journal
Art Collecting on a Budget: British Councils make it Easy with Interest-Free Loans (5 October 2000)
Self-promotion, Indian-Style (14-15 August, 1992)
Hardly the Greatest Show on Earth (October 1992)
Mixing Dream and Reality in Tamil Nadu: Film in South India (1-2 November 1991)
India's Future Brokers: Role of Astrologers during Elections (18-18 May 1991)
Union of Catholic Asian News
Chipping Away at India's Problems (7 September 1992)
Conservative Indian Society Reluctant to Openly Discuss AIDS (23 December 1991)
Drug Underworld Threatens Youth in South India (19 December 1991)
Former Addict and Others Fight Drug Addiction in Madras (18 November 1991)
Poor Indians Meet Emergency Needs through Sale of Kidneys (18 November 1991)
Woman Chief Minister Gains Popularity and criticism in South india (30 October 1991)
Sriperumbudur: Now a Stopover for Indian Travelers (18 July 1991)
SPAN
The Verifone Connection (September 1992)
Help...and Hope in Bangalore (October 1992)