Mustafah Abdulaziz

Essays: Daily Life

My sister Shadha’s nikah (النكاح) on November 21, 2009 at Masjid Iqamatiddeen on Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.The nikah in Islam involves a nikah nama, or marriage contract, between a Muslim man and woman. These are very intimate gatherings of family and friends, as well as members of the Muslim community. Shadha Abdulaziz, 20, and Mutassim Cox, 18.
   
Dogs play around a frozen pool, New Years Day 2010.
   
A farmhouse in Tennessee burns.
     
  
Little Tennessee River, Tennessee
   
Dignified transfer of three soldiers from Operation Iraqi Freedom, on 13 May 2009 at Dover Air Force Base. For The New York Times
   
Highway Rt. 50, westbound through Ohio, during a snowstorm.
     
  
Warren, last name witheld, prepares to enter into the freezing temperatures of Philadelphia, where he lives in the various subway stations, keeping warm as long as possible before being discovered by the police.
   
A mother on methadone and her first daughter enter a clinic in North Philadelphia at sunset. Methadone is a synthetic opioid used in the treatment of opioid dependence, such as heroin or morphine.
   
     
  
2007 U.S. Open, Flushing, New York
   
Landon “L Train” Prater, 17, jokes with a girl in the back parking lot of Crystal City High School in Missouri while his younger brother Brandon, age 16, watches.
   
Pato, proclaimed afficiando of all things Bob Marley and marijuana, smokes a joint in the hostel he owns in Punta Arenas, Chile.
     
  
Teen sexting for The Wall Street Journal
   
Rochester, New York