In the Season 2 premiere of Cultureful, host Jess Lin talks with Aisha Sarwari, a 43-year-old Pakistani American women's rights activist, author and public speaker, and corporate communications expert, and public speaker based in Atlanta.
Aisha shares about her family’s multi-generational migration story—from India to Uganda and Kenya and eventually to Pakistan and the U.S.—intertwining personal history with major events like India’s Partition and the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. In this episode, she reflects on her parents’ backgrounds and communities.
This is the first of a four-part conversation full of insight, complexity, nuance, and heart.
Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OpffD_p_NZg
Follow Aisha:
On Instagram @aishafsarwari https://instagram.com/aishafsarwari
and @heart_tantrums https://instagram.com/heart_tantrums
On X @AishaFSarwari https://x.com/AishaFSarwari
On Youtube @aishasarwari2134 https://youtube.com/@aishasarwari2134?si=q-4af45REWM201X9
Her memoir is called Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours and can be ordered on from Hurst Publishers at https://www.hurstpublishers.com/profile/aisha-sarwari/
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