April 24, 2010 / The Seattle Times

Surreal Beauty on Yemen's Remote Socotra Island

Haley Sweetland Edwards, Paul Stephens
So there I was, lying on my back in a bikini on a deserted white-sand beach in Yemen, squinting into the shimmering turquoise sea to the west, wondering if I could make out Somalia from here.
August 17, 2009 / The Seattle Times

Pakistani Immigrants in Seattle Confront a Huge Challenge at Home

Sarah Stuteville
As the first notes of the Quran, sung by a diminutive imam in an embroidered prayer cap, fill the Westin Bellevue's ornate Grand Ballroom, a sea of hands moves to cover heads. At the hotel, 450...
August 16, 2009 / The Seattle Times

Pakistanis in Seattle Give a Pakistan Community the Gift of Girls' School

Sarah Stuteville
Thirteen-year-old Humiera Kausar's oversized sneakers hurry over piles of granite boulders and through scrubby pines bristling with last night's rain. A headscarf and pink shawl are wound tightly...